during the thursday of sunday 28 june the 75 day old children ' s costume retail , adams childrenswear called in administrators pricewaterhousecoopers . collins had previously been placed in administration with kpmg in 2006 , but was purchased by northern irish politician thomas kelly in february 2007 . a large rebranding followed in 2008 , after 42 stores were closed . adams has premises overseas in things such as western arabia , and still makes clothing under the mini mode campaign for boots . at the beginning of the 2008 administration there were 260 distributors in the uk and 116 sites overseas , employing around 2000 people . adams is reported to owed around £20 m to the shannon and £10 million to burdale .
The UK retailer Zavvi has called in administrators during Christmas.