A HIGH street name is set to return to York next week.

Bonmarché, which closed its doors in Goodramgate back in 2022 after the company went into administration for a second time in just a few years, is set to open in the Coppergate Centre on Thursday, September 12.

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At the back end of last year the firm submitted a planning application with City of York Council for new signage at Units 17/18, in 5, St Mary’s in Coppergate Walk, which at one time contained a Boots.

After Boots closed the shop was then occupied by Utopia Womenswear, who has been busy moving around the city centre who went on to move to a shop in Coney Street, in the unit that previously contained the StreetLife printing exhibition.

Other Yorkshire locations for Bonmarché include Selby, Goole, Pontefract, Leeds, Bradford, Castleford, Wakefield, Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Huddersfield.

York’s Goodramgate site re-opened as a Yorkshire Trading Company in 2022. The family-owned business is headquartered in Driffield and was founded in 1954. Today, it has has about 35 stores.

Bonmarché was founded in 1983 by Parkash Singh Chima, and the first Bonmarché store opened in Doncaster in 1985.

Mr Chima retired and left two sons to run the business, before they sold to the Peacock Group in July 2002.

However, the Peacock Group then sold Bonmarché to a private equity group in 2012, and following poor trading it went into administration in October 2019.

It was rescued out of administration by Purepay Retail in 2020 and is slowly opening new stores across the UK.