Miller Brothers in administration

THIRTY staff have lost their jobs and a further 80 are at risk after Yorkshire-based electrical goods retailer Miller Brothers went into administration.

The firm, which is based in Doncaster and employs 110 staff, will close at the end of the month unless a buyer can be found, administrators said.

The group includes Miller Brothers Retail, Miller Stores (Doncaster) and Miller Property (Doncaster).

The business, which previously went into administration in June 2006, has a store on Shaw Lane and also trades through its website.

It also operates hosted e-retail electrical goods services on behalf of other retailers.

Corporate recovery partners Ian Schofield and Charles Escott at PKF in Leeds have been appointed joint administrators.

Mr Schofield, said: “The current economic climate has had an adverse effect not only on its own web and shop retail business, but also on a number of potential customers for its hosted e-retail services.

“The future of the business was reliant on the success of those relationships. Following the failure of Woolworths, which was a key customer for the company, the directors undertook a review of the group’s financial position  and the prospects for the sector and concluded that the group could not continue to operate.”