
Spotlight wins right to buy Harris Scarfe
Fabric and homewares chain Spotlight has won the exclusive rights to purchase Adelaide-founded department store Harris Scarfe, which was placed in receivership late last year.
Fabric and homewares chain Spotlight has won the exclusive rights to purchase Adelaide-founded department store Harris Scarfe, which was placed in receivership late last year.
EXCLUSIVE | The landlord of the shuttered Harris Scarfe flagship store in Rundle Mall has engaged Renew Adelaide and a local architectural firm to attract tenants to a redesigned retail offering on it first floor, InDaily can reveal.
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UPDATED | Adelaide-founded department store Harris Scarfe will close its Rundle Mall store next month after 170 years trading, among 20 other stores set to shut across the country, the company’s administrators confirmed this afternoon.
Adelaide-founded retail chain Harris Scarfe, which was placed into voluntary administration yesterday, is the latest victim of Australia’s increasingly hostile retail environment – and Christmas trading is unlikely to offer much relief to rivals.
Adelaide-founded retail chain Harris Scarfe, which employs around 1800 staff across more than 60 stores nationally, has been placed in voluntary administration.