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Jul 2022
Love Brownies goes into liquidation but Harrogate store to stay open
Love Brownies has gone into liquidation but said that its Harrogate store, which is a franchise, will stay open.
The company said it had suffered "unsustainable" losses and liquidators were appointed to its Ilkley headquarters at the end of last week.
Lee and Chantelle Teal set up Love Brownies in 2009 with the "ambition of baking the ultimate chocolate brownie and making people smile". It went onto to win three gold stars from the Great Taste Awards in 2015 and expanded rapidly with a new bakery at Howgill.
In a statement included in correspondence sent to creditors it said:
Mr Teal told the Stray Ferret however, that the Harrogate store on Montpellier Parade would stay open as it is franchised but other parts of the business, including the flagship store in Leeds Victoria Gate had been closed and staff made redundant. He added:
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