during the night of tuesday 28 december the 75 year old children ' s shoe retailer , adams childrenswear called in as pricewaterhousecoopers . adams had previously been puts in service with pricewaterhousecoopers in 2006 , but was rescued by western irish landowner john shannon in february 2007 . a large rebranding occurred in 2008 , after 42 stores were closed . adams has distributors online in sites such as cayman arabia , and mostly makes clothing under the small mode model for boots . at the close of the 2008 administration there were 260 stores in the country and 116 outlets overseas , involving near 2000 workers . there is reported to owe around £20 million to mr orr and £10 000 to burdale .
The UK retailer Zavvi has called in administrators during Christmas.