MyCom closes half of its stores

The chain of computer stores MyCom is in trouble again. The chain has immediately closed seven of the fourteen remaining branches. The closed branches include those in Arnhem and Den Bosch.

MyCom reports on its website that there are still seven physical branches, where there were still fourteen stores until Tuesday. The chain has closed its premises in Amstelveen, Arnhem, Den Bosch, Den Helder, Helmond, Leiden and Zeist. The company could not be reached to provide an explanation and the helpdesk was also unavailable at the time of writing.

It is not the first time that MyCom has been in trouble. In 2015, the company was declared bankrupt, after which Relevant Holdings, the then owner of The Phone House, took over the computer store chain, but closed 19 of the 41 branches at the time.

At the beginning of 2016, two MyCom entrepreneurs, Peter Groenewoud and Marco Heestermans, in turn took over the company from Relevant Holdings and at the beginning of 2018 the chain came into the hands of a Swedish investor, with the management remaining intact. Groenewoud, however, appears to have left MyCom last October.

MyCom has not yet officially confirmed the closure. In mid-December, the chain communicated with a discount campaign that it will ‘do everything differently’ in 2019 and that it would also renew the store concept. Since then, it has given a 20% discount on stocks in physical stores.