during the evening of sunday 28 october the 75 year established children ' s jeans retailer , adams childrenswear called in from pricewaterhousecoopers . adams had previously been placing in administration with pricewaterhousecoopers in 2006 , but was rescued by northern french businessman john julian in february 2007 . a large rebranding continued in 2008 , after 42 stores were closed . sas has outlet worldwide in places such as saudi arabia , and also making clothing under the mi mode brand for boots . at the start of the 2008 administration there were 260 stores in the uk and 116 elsewhere overseas , serving half 2000 people . adams is reports to loan around £20 % to mr shannon and £10 million to burdale .
The UK retailer Zavvi has called in administrators during Christmas.