On 6 April, RedGroup Retail announced that 16 of the 25 remaining Borders stores in Australia were to close within two months. The handling of the administration prompted 25 franchised Angus & Robertson stores to sever ties with RedGroup, rebranding themselves as independents. By the end of May, 70 of the 87 RedGroup-owned bookstores in New Zealand had been sold off: ten airport-based Whitcoulls stores to Australian-based LS Travel Retail Pacific, and another 57 Whitcoulls plus five Borders stores to the James Pascoe Group.
On 6 April RedGroup Retail announced that 16 of the 25 remaining Borders stores in Australia were to close within two months The handling of the administration prompted 25 franchised Angus & Robertson stores to sever ties with RedGroup rebranding themselves as independents By the end of May 70 of the 87 RedGroup-owned bookstores in New Zealand had been sold off ten airport-based Whitcoulls stores to Australian-based LS Travel Retail Pacific and another 57 Whitcoulls plus five Borders stores to the James Pascoe Group