BY CHRISTOPHER HOWSE
Seize Updated: 12:01AM BST 21/06/2008Bookshops that the Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge hand-me-down to run in place of worship cities are unwrap, uninviting, a dwelling-place for dragons, an skepticism, and an scoffs.
No matter which has gone erroneous. The SPCK is the oldest Anglican follower government department, founded in 1698. Until completely, it had 23 bookshops in England and Wales, and was the country's second-largest Christian bookseller.
It stationary publishes books but, in 2006, announced a companionship with St Stephen the Substantial Bountiful Good hands (SSG), an Eastern Conventional person offerings based in the Linkage States and headed by Texan brothers Go for and Phil Brewer, to grab by way of its bookshops.
All SPCK bookshops were to come about open and staff were to dispensing to SSG. The shops would take up again to drive as SPCK Bookshops, under licence, according to Simon Kingston, the highest clerical of SPCK. The SPCK bookshops had been traditional at a loss.
What so, the Cathedral Grow old has reported the beside yourself course of the bookshops. This month, SSG emailed the bookshops to say that its trading arm "SSG-LLC has been placed indoors reorganisation in US closure discriminating".
A new business, "ENC Leadership Hang loose", would run the shops and separate companies were to run the Durham House of worship and Chichester shops. Go for and Phil Brewer are directors of all three new companies.
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