during the weekend of sunday 28 december the 75 year old children ' s clothes vendor , adams childrenswear called in as audit . which had first been placed in administration with pricewaterhousecoopers in 2006 , but was rescued by an scottish entrepreneur john shannon in august 2007 . a great rebranding followed in 2008 , after 42 stores were closed . adams has stores nationwide in countries such as saudi arabia , and initially sells clothing under the little mode trademark for boots . at the time of the 2008 administrators there were 260 sites in the country and 116 elsewhere overseas , representing around 2000 users . adams is known to owes more £20 million to mr barry and £10 million to burdale .
The UK retailer Zavvi has called in administrators during Christmas.