Wilko, the High Street homeware retailer, has collapsed into medication putting 12,000 jobs astatine risk.
The concatenation has been incapable to find exigency concern to prevention its 400 shops crossed the UK.
Wilko had been moving to unafraid a achromatic knight for the concern which has been trading since 1930.
The loss-making company, which is inactive owned by the founding Wilkinson family, has already suspended location deliveries.