Online fashion retailer Boohoo Group is set to acquire collapsed British department store group Debenhams in a cut-price deal that will result in the closure of the group's remaining department stores. The purchase price is expected to be about 68.39 million and a deal could be announced soon, citing two people with knowledge of the transaction.

Debenhams was continuing to engage with a number of third parties regarding the sale of all or parts of the business, administrator FRP Advisory said earlier this month. The Authentic Brands, owner of the New York department store brand Barneys, was looking at a takeover of Debenhams and was in talks with its administrators.

Administrators for Debenhams said in December it would be wound down, closing all its shops after 242 years in business and putting 12,000 jobs at risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic.