Pores and skin, one of many UK’s largest cosmetic surgery suppliers with greater than 70 branches, has collapsed, placing tons of of jobs in danger.
As of 5pm on Tuesday, Pores and skin’s web site had been changed by a message saying the corporate had “undertaken an intensive course of to safe funding to allow it to proceed buying and selling however sadly we’ve been unsuccessful”.
It added: “We recognise this end result may have a major impression on our crew members and our prospects and we’re deeply sorry for the stress and inconvenience this has prompted.
“We’re doing all we are able to to handle the considerations of these affected and shall be contacting all purchasers nonetheless awaiting take a look at outcomes as quickly as doable. All additional updates shall be offered on this web site and when accessible.”
Earlier than the web site went down, it mentioned the Birmingham-based firm had “the biggest community of specialist skincare clinics within the UK”.
Based in 1990, the corporate expanded to places in Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and had 17 clinics throughout London.
It additionally owned manufacturers together with the beauty surgical procedure agency Harley Medical Group and the pores and skin expertise firm ABC Medical, whose cellphone traces had the identical automated message.
Pores and skin had greater than 450 consultants, docs, nurses and medical practitioners working throughout England and Scotland. The corporate offered providers from tattoo and wart removing to lip filler and thread lifts, a kind of facelift.
Clients have been instructed their appointments will not go forward.
One buyer, who requested to not be recognized, mentioned their upcoming appointment had been cancelled on Tuesday “out of the blue”. They mentioned that they had pre-paid about £700 for a collection of appointments and had not but accomplished the course of remedy.
“They’ve finished this with no prior warning to prospects, with no communications about the right way to get a refund on the remedies prospects are owed,” the individual mentioned.
Clients calling Pores and skin’s principal workplace quantity on Tuesday have been instructed: “Sadly as of July 17, the Pores and skin Group, together with Pores and skin Clinics, the Harley Medical Group, Pores and skin Manufacturers, the Pores and skin Specialists and ABC Medical, has ceased buying and selling.”
Pores and skin’s accounts on X, previously Twitter, and Instagram seem to have been closed.
The communications agency Kendrick, which was Pores and skin’s PR company, wrote in a submit on Instagram that it had been “blindsided” by the information.
The submit indicated that Pores and skin had ceased buying and selling and mentioned: “At the moment we’ve no info for the press and sufferers who’re understandably reaching out to us wanting readability on the scenario. We have now no info concerning how issues are being managed by SK:N (or HMRC/debt assortment), or how cancelled affected person appointments/funds and so forth shall be redressed.
“We’re sadly in the identical place as many workers and sufferers, with a number of months of (our) personal invoices being left unpaid with no rationalization or redress.”
The PA information company contacted Pores and skin for remark.
