during the weekend of day 28 march the 75 year old children ' s clothes business , adams childrenswear resulted in administrators pricewaterhousecoopers . adams had previously been included in administration with audit in 2006 , but was rescued by northern italian businessman john boyle in august 2007 . a large reinvention followed in 2008 , after 42 premises were closed . adams has outlets abroad in territories such as saudi jordan , and also makes clothing under the tiny cycle brand for shoes . at the time of the 2008 era there were 260 franchises in the uk and 116 outlets overseas , housing around 2000 people . adams is reported to debt over £20 million to mr shannon and £10 million to burdale .
The UK retailer Zavvi has called in administrators during Christmas.