JD Sports Fashion has pulled the plug on its own label menswear fascia Open, making a number of head office staff redundant. Its 11 stores, the first of which opened in Stevenage in August 2014, will continue to trade under the Open fascia while JD looks at alternative uses for the sites. The move comes two months after JD sold its struggling young fashion business Bank to a subsidiary of Hilco Capital and declared it would prioritise future investment in its core sports fascias, which include JD and Size.

All of Open's head office staff have been issued with redundancy notices.