{"id":561241,"date":"2026-08-06T23:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561241\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T23:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:42:10","slug":"ballentynes-fashion-central-to-shut-its-doors-after-serving-kiwis-for-more-than-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561241\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballentynes Fashion Central to shut its doors after serving Kiwis for more than 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ballentynes Fashion Central clothing department giant is set to close after more than 50 years. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n

Ballentynes Fashion Central has announced it is closing down after operating more than 50 years.<\/p>\n

The clothing chain\u2019s 23 stores will be closing down progressively from next Saturday.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cOn behalf of the Ballentyne family – including our incredible team of staff in the stores and in our warehouse, we would
\n like to thank you for your support and shopping with us over the years,\u201d a notice on the company\u2019s website reads.\n <\/p>\n

Thirteen stores will close completely, with 10 reopening as Caroline Eve Fashion.<\/p>\n

The stores that will reopen, listed on the company website, will be in Blenheim, Richmond, Whanganui, Feilding, Palmerston North, Paraparaumu, H\u0101wera, Levin, Lower Hutt and Masterton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13212,74,696,276155,138,1853,6789,6741,6097,1438,2082,302,807,130,111,139,69,17177,74908,6753,131,61,1530],"class_list":["post-561241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-13212","tag-after","tag-announced","tag-ballentynes","tag-business","tag-central","tag-closing","tag-doors","tag-down","tag-fashion","tag-for","tag-its","tag-kiwis","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-operating","tag-serving","tag-shut","tag-than","tag-to","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}