{"id":561449,"date":"2026-08-07T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561449\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:36:09","slug":"ballentynes-fashion-central-to-close-after-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/561449\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballentynes Fashion Central to close after 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Ballentynes Fashion Central is closing down, with 10 of its 23 locations nationwide to reopen as Caroline Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The long-running family clothing business is shutting down after more than 50 years in business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In an online statement, the company said 10 of its 23 stores around the country will stay open and become part of the Caroline Eve chain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">They will be located in Blenheim, Richmond, Whanganui, Feilding, Palmerston North, Paraparaumu, Hawera, Levin, Lower Hutt and Masterton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The remaining 13 stores will be closing over the next few months from August 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;On behalf of the Ballentyne family &#8211; including our incredible team of staff in the stores and in our warehouse, we would like to thank you for your support and shopping with us over the years,&#8221; the company said on its website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballentynes Fashion Central is closing down, with 10 of its 23 locations nationwide to reopen as Caroline Eve.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-561449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-business","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561449","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=561449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}