JJB's Closure Leads To A Loss Of Jobs!

After many years of sales, JJB decided to shut down over 130 stores. This meant that over 2,200 people's jobs have been made redundant.

Sports direct have bought 20 of the JJB stores for over £23M. This saves over 550 jobs, but over 1,000 jobs have still been taken away.

However the boss of JJB said that he made sure that all holidays and wages were paid full before they were made redundant. He also added that he has given them help into finding employees a new job or even a job at another one of there stores.

JJB Sports put itself up for sale last month, but shareholders were warned they were likely to be left empty-handed.

Wigan Athletic owner Dave Whelan bought the first JJB store in Wigan in 1971 and rapidly expanded the company to become the UK's biggest sports retailer with more than 400 stores.