Chocolate retailer Thorntons has announced plans to permanently shut all its 61 stores with 603 jobs impacted.
Adam Goddard, retail director at Thorntons, said the changing face of retail along with coronavirus and lockdown pressures have had their toll on the business.
He said: "Changing dynamics of the high street, shifting customer behaviour to online, the ongoing impact of Covid-19 and the numerous lockdown restrictions over the last year - especially during our key trading periods at Easter and Christmas - has meant we have been trading in the most challenging circumstances."
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He also said: "Unfortunately like many others, the obstacles we have faced and will continue to face on the high street are too severe and despite our best efforts we have taken the difficult decision to permanently close our retail store estate.
"We will now go into full consultation with our colleagues."
The company, which was founded in Sheffield in 1911, was bought by Italian food giant Ferrero in 2015 for £112 million.
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