Peckham's

Peckham's

Type	Private limited company
Industry	Retail (Grocery)
Founded	1982
Defunct	August 2018 (2018-08)
Headquarters	Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Peckham's was the trading name for a chain of specialist grocery stores. Peckham's advertised itself as a vintners, victuallers and delicatessen company, and also offered luxury hampers & gifts online.

The stores stocked a variety of different products, usually focused upon a delicatessen and an off-sales area offering a large number of wines, spirits, and other drinks. Other grocery and non-food items were also available in the branches.

History[]

In 1982, Peckham's first opened their doors to fill the gap in the market for specialist consumable products not available in Scotland. After twenty years, it began stocking items that many normal supermarkets at the time did not.

It was also part of their initial ethos to be late-opening, with most stores opening until eight or ten o'clock in the evening and a good number remaining open until midnight, subject to local licensing conditions.

In 2009, Peckham's bought four Mcleish stores: two in Aberdeen, one in Dundee, and another in Broughty Ferry.^[1][2] All four of the former Mcleish stores have now ceased trading.

In 2011 Peckham and Rye went into administration closing three branches - Newton Mearns, Lenzie and Raeburn Place.^[3][4] All of their specialty delicatessen shops were put up for sale by the administrators,^[5] 31 staff were made redundant, and a further 140 jobs were put at risk. It also emerged that Peckham and Rye previously had to fight off a sheriff court petition to wind up the business in July 2002.^[3][6] In 2007 the delicatessen slipped to a GBP29,000 pre-tax loss as the company had difficulties absorbing rising costs.^[7] In accounts for 2009, Peckham and Rye made an after tax profit of £54,719, this followed previous losses. Changes to the licensing laws introduced September, 2009 were said to be affecting sales.^[3] Since entering administration, a total of eight branches have closed Glasgow's Prestwick Airport & Hyndland Road branches. Edinburgh's Raeburn Place & Bruntsfield Place branches and Aberdeen's Schoolhill & Union Street branches. The branches in Newton Mearns & Lenzie have also closed, causing job loss. Only four branches remain trading.

In April 2012, The Glasgow Hyndland Road branch reopened.

In June 2017, Peckham's Scotland Limited was placed into liquidation^[8] shortly after the two remaining stores were taken over by two local businessmen.^[9] The pair were able to save 25 jobs and the two remaining branches (Byres Road and Hyndland Road) and continue trading as Peckham's in the community.^[10]

In August 2018, Peckham's announced the closure of both remaining stores after the pair failed to attract additional investment in the stores, after just 14 months of their purchase of the sites.^[11] Tony Johnson, the original owner of the Peckham's stores, later announced plans of opening up a new branch in Helensburgh, while suggesting that there was an existing legal battle in progress over the use of the brand in the previous two stores. He also suggested the possibility of reopening the shuttered stores.^[12]

In 2019, the Byres Road location reopened as an Asian supermarket.

Branches[]

Branches included:

• Glasgow - Byres Road
• Glasgow - Central Station
• Glasgow - Clarence Drive
• Glasgow - Clarence Drive (off-sales)
• Glasgow - Glassford Street
• Glasgow - Hyndland Road
• Aberdeen - Union Street
• Aberdeen - Schoolhill
• Aberdeen - Union Square
• Edinburgh - Bruntsfield Place
• Edinburgh - South Clerk Street^[13][14]
• Edinburgh - Raeburn Place^[13]
• Edinburgh - Waverley Station
• Lenzie - Kirkintilloch Road^[13][15]
• Newton Mearns^[13]
• Prestwick - Prestwick Airport
• Stirling - Port Street

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