Woolworths Group had been opened, although in April the company also entered administration and closed. The Woolworths store in Dorchester, Dorset was reopened as an independent business named "Wellworths" by the store manager Claire Robertson. The store was officially opened by BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans on 11 March 2009. It was later renamed "Wellchester". Wellchester ceased trading in August 2012, after store manager Claire Robertson left to set up her own retail consultancy business. The Woolworths brand and domain was bought by Shop Direct Group, owned by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, on 2 February 2009. The company announced
Woolworths Group it would relaunch Woolworths as an online retail store. The website was launched on 26 June 2009. It was entirely independent of the former Woolworths Group. It has been closed until further notice since June 2015. On 13 October 2015, the company finally dissolved and the website went defunct. In April 2017, multiple news sources reported that Woolworths may possibly be re-opening, nearly nine years since it closed, after former director Tony Page confirmed interest in acquiring the Woolworths name from Shop Direct. As of August 2018, the 'woolworths.co.uk' URL redirects to Very.co.uk. Many branches of Woolworths suffered severe bomb