It appears that the remaining 48 Oddbins are to close – not confirmed. Still no definite answer to who has bought the Oddbins' brand – some say Whittalls, while others Simon Baile and Henry Young. If a deal has been done over the brand name and after all Lee Manning of Deloitte told me Tuesday morning that the intellectual property rights had been sold, why is the buyer still secret? Not another of those superinjunctions!?
Update (28.4.2011): I gather the brand name has not been bought by Simon Baile. Just as well as the failure by Oddbins under Baile to develop its on-line sales must be one of the contributory factors in the company's collapse.
