Overview
- The Original Factory Shop, which shut its final stores Saturday, April 4, has now ceased trading nationwide.
- Interpath said most of the 1,180 staff have been made redundant, with a small team kept on to help wind down the business and process Redundancy Payments Service claims.
- Administrators ran a phased programme of closures and clearance sales at every site to sell remaining stock before locking up the last locations.
- Interpath reported no viable rescue offers, while owner Modella Capital cited weak consumer confidence, rising costs and adverse fiscal policy as reasons the business failed.
- Founded in 1969 and bought by Modella last year after a 2025 restructuring, the chain’s collapse adds to a broader 2026 wave of retail distress on UK high streets.