Kwik-Fit's Tyre Plus surgery Kwik-Fit Holdings is to close more than half of its 256 Tyre Plus operations and merge the remainder into its Kwik-Fit GB business.

Tyre Plus currently operates at 256 UK sites and plans to move 115 of them over to Kwik-Fit (GB) Ltd and to close 140 on the grounds that they are either unprofitable or compete with nearby Kwik-Fit centres.

The Tyre Plus centres will lift the total number of Kwik-Fit branded centres in the UK to over 700.

Kwik-Fit is in consultation with the TGWU in a bid to ensure that the redundancies linked to the merger and closures are minimised.