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Commercial death in Ennis. Huges & Huges RIP.

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  • #2
    ollaetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    Sad news for Ennis and all the staff here in town and nationwide. Is Costa Coffee affected seeing as they share the premises?


  • #3
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    ollaetta wrote: »
    Sad news for Ennis and all the staff here in town and nationwide. Is Costa Coffee affected seeing as they share the premises?

    Costa in Dunlaoghaire was shut this morning with a similar death notice in the window. I presume they both share the leases.


  • #4
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    Costa in Ennis is open today, through back entrance from the car park. People quite shocked walking down to Hughes and Hughes, not having heard the news, and finding it closed with receivership notice on door.


  • #5
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Balagan wrote: »
    Costa in Ennis is open today, back entrance from the car park open.
    Thats good, not the same in many of their other branches, probably due to security issues.


  • #6
    drunken_munky52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭drunken_munky52


    One of my favorite shops. Just finished a book somebody got me for Christmas in there, was going to get another and heard that.

    Costa wont survive without Hughes and Hughes... symbiotic relationship they had.


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  • #7
    cqd2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭cqd2


    yeah, i didnt much care when the recession was closing down clothes shops and the like, but im sickened to see h&h go...they owe me like e7 i've left on a voucher i got for xmas too...might send it in to the administrator..


  • #8
    buck65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Good luck with that:D

    I prefer the Ennis Book Shop but Hughes definitely brough the price of books down in the town . A big loss. Maybe Waterstones or God forbid, Easons would come in. I would guess that they did a tidy profit in Ennis.


  • #9
    ktc1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭ktc1


    buck65 wrote: »
    Good luck with that:D

    I prefer the Ennis Book Shop but Hughes definitely brough the price of books down in the town . A big loss. Maybe Waterstones or God forbid, Easons would come in. I would guess that they did a tidy profit in Ennis.

    It'll be interesting to see if the Receiver can get anybody to take over some of the businesses. I heard from an Abbey Street trader that the rent for H&H was €5k a week. I'd say the landlord will be hard pressed to reduce it as the upper floors are still empty.

    I was in Costa yesterday and the staff were pretty downbeat about their chances of survival. They said business was down a good bit on Saturday. Having said that the place was ticking over nicely at 2pm yesterday about half full. I remember last year the place was mostly empty even at the weekends but it appears to have picked up a bit in the last few months.

    I have about €60 in vouchers I got for my birthday recently that are useless now, but that's unimportant compared to the poor people out of a job, so hopefully someone will come in and take it over.


  • #10
    Mcloke
    Registered Users Posts: 201 ✭✭Mcloke


    Good decent bookshop...sad to see them go! You will probably see the price of a book shoot back up in price unless another main bookstore enters the town.
    At 5k a week (if that is what it costs) that will be another building that will stay empty for some time to come.


  • #11
    Nevermind_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 328 ✭✭Nevermind_


    There was a report in the sunday business post that WH Smith were interested in buying the assets of H&H from the receiver, especially the Airport outlets.
    Not sure what this means for the ennis outlet but if they could renegotiate the rent there might be some hope for it yet.
    depends how the ennis branch was trading i guess


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