Brantano has ceased online trading just days after falling into administration.
The retailer‘s website, which sells major footwear brands including Reebok, Sketchers and Rocket Dog, now redirects online shoppers to a list of 73 physical stores which are still trading.
Following a failed search for a buyer, Brantano appointed Tony Barrell and Mike Jervis of PwC as joint administrators the same week that Jones Bootmaker, also owned by Alteri Investors, narrowly avoided the same fate.
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This is the second administration in as many years, having fallen into a similar state in January 2016 before being bought by Alteri a month later for £12.2 million.
Jones Bootmaker was bought in a last minute pre-pack deal by private equity firm Endless, after it looked dead set on being the second casualty for Alteri in a week.
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