Lenders to Quiz Clothes, the troubled trend enterprise, have drafted in restructuring advisers days earlier than it is because of maintain a vote on delisting from the London inventory market.
Sky Information has learnt that Quiz’s principal lender – understood to be HSBC – has employed Interpath to advise it on the rising disaster on the firm.
Quiz, which flagged final month doubts about its going concern standing, is chaired by Peter Cowgill, the previous JD Sports activities Vogue boss.
The corporate operates roughly 60 standalone shops and dozens extra concessions, using about 1,500 folks.
It plans to carry a shareholder vote this week as a way to delist from the general public markets.
“Given the disappointing degree of revenues within the essential Christmas buying and selling interval, as introduced on 6 December 2024, the money headroom obtainable to the enterprise is lower than beforehand anticipated,” Quiz mentioned final month.
“In consequence, the board anticipates that further funding will probably be required by the group in early 2025.”
It added that it had a £4m borrowing facility which expires on the finish of June, and which it mentioned was repayable on demand.
Quiz’s troubles come amid rising monetary strain on retailers, a lot of that are going through a deepening problem in 2025 on account of looming hikes to employer’s nationwide insurance coverage.
Interpath and Quiz each declined to remark.
