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UGO have appeared twice on television in the [[United Kingdom]]. It appeared on [[Channel 4]]'s ''[[Come Dine With Me]]''<ref name="Phillips20120121"/> when a contestant was filmed shopping for the programme in the store in Blackburn, and appeared on Channel 4's ''[[Facejacker]]'', which aired on 27 March 2012 at 10pm, in the Nuneaton store, when the self service checkout was 'taken over'.<ref name="Channel4"/>
 
In June 2011, Haldanes Stores went into administration, and its stores closed, including the two stores branded as UGO. In February 2012, UGO Stores was itself placed in administration, and the chain was bought by [[Poundstretcher]], in a [[Pre-packaged insolvency|pre -pack]] sale, with 18 of the twenty stores to become part of the Poundstretcher chain<ref name="Phillips20120211"/> and the other two (Nuneaton, Hull) to close as Poundstretcher already had stores nearby.<ref name="Soult20120219"/>
 
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