WA Shearings closed its Sheffield branch last week, bringing the number of agencies it has shut since it formed in March last year to 11.
The series of closures has come following a review of properties owned by the company, a merger of former rivals Wallance Arnold and Shearings.
Sales and marketing director Karen Gee denied claims made by a former Wallace Arnold employee in a letter to Travel Weekly that the closure was further evidence that the merger was more a takeover by Wigan-based Shearings.
“The branch was in a poor location, surrounded by boarded up shops and pubs and was on a dual carriageway,” she said.
“We’ve spent more money on the remaining shops in the past 12 months than has been spent on them in the last 20 years.”
Gee added there was a full consultation over the closure of the shop and although staff were only given two-and-a- half weeks’ notice of the closure, she said their severance pay was more than the legally required amount.