Wesley Owen in administration

On December 20, 2009 / By maggi dawn / Reply

Back from two amazingly beautiful snowy days in York (and a slightly scary drive home in the freeze) to the sad news that many of the Wesley Owen shops have gone under. Wesley Owen: 26 Branches Enter Administration, Others Sold Updated « UKCBD: The Christian Bookshops Blog.

The Cambridge shop has apparently been taken over by CLC, but is one of only six that has survived the latest results of the economic downturn.

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  1. Dawson King

    Economic downturn or Amazon, Ebooks and their ilk?

  2. Thanks for the link, Maggi. Probably one of the saddest days in the history of Christian bookselling … and yet, and yet … somehow, seeing the way the churches in Chichester eventually came together, I think there may yet be hope…

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