PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

BCBG announced plans to close stores and restructure the company due to mounting pressure from its debt burden and more consumers opting to shop online. But the retailer now has “too large a physical retail footprint,” Lubove explained. “In told Bloomberg in an emailed statement. told Bloomberg in an emailed statement.

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Accountancy Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The number of corporate insolvencies hit 2,466 in November, 21% higher than the prior year, meaning the number of total failures for 2023 now total over 23,000, according to new figures from The Insolvency Service.

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CFO Talks

MAY 20, 2025

Edcon: A Real-World Turnaround Case Study Edcon, once a leading retail conglomerate in South Africa, faced severe financial distress due to a combination of factors, including aggressive expansion, mounting debt, and shifts in consumer behaviour. Debt Reorganisation : Negotiating with creditors to restructure existing debt obligations.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

We may be on borrowed time for job cuts in a number of industries…that were not necessarily distressed when we entered the pandemic,” she said, according to WSJ. Penney and home-goods retailer Pier 1, along with telecommunications company Frontier Communications. Penney, once a heavy hitter in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

And in retail, Nordstrom and Lord & Taylor are dampening the industry’s reopening plans. 60 cents: Earnings per share Disney reported for Q2 after adjusting for restructuring charges and other effects. 16: Number of full-line stores that Nordstrom will close. 16: Number of full-line stores that Nordstrom will close.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

Another month of the pandemic and another first of the month when retail lease payments are due. As the crisis enters its fourth month, counting March, two new earnings reports indicate that about 60 percent of retailers are paying their rent — with a few very notable exceptions. percent of retail rent was collected, compared to 48.9

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In addition, Lloyds is reducing its headcount by another 730 positions as part of a significant restructuring effort. Workers in the group transformation and retail banking workforces will be primarily impacted by the reductions, which will reportedly bring about no additional bank closings.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Retailers are feeling the heat from high rent costs. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal , while commercial retail rents are down, rent costs still remain higher than prerecession levels in many prime shopping areas, including Manhattan, Los Angeles and Dallas. The retailer fought the rent increase but lost.

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CFO Talks

JUNE 3, 2025

He instructs his managers to spend no more than 10 percent of their time on accounting and the rest interpreting what the numbers mean. He openly shares frustrations about procurement inefficienciessuch as being forced to buy a fridge through expensive channels instead of going directly to a retail store. What do the numbers tell us?

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

Ascena Retail Group, Inc. The retailer and “certain of its subsidiaries” have come to a restructuring support agreement (RSA) with more than 68 percent of secured term lenders, according to a Thursday (July 23) statement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2017

Changing eCommerce and technological shifts in the retail space are now impacting payrolls. government, the number of jobs lost in general merchandise stores hit a new low at 34,700 in March, The New York Times reported. However, with all of the change taking place, retailers “are not sure what the endgame is.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

Under the watch of the former head of the retail business, Carrie Tolstedt, employees created as many as 2.1 The San Francisco-based bank has since replaced Tolstedt with Mary Mack as head of the retail business and is now reassigning four executives to report directly to Mack. sub-regions from eight to five.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

Authentic Brands Group ( ABG ), the New York-based brand management company, could be the latest potential buyer of Ascena Retail Group , the recently bankrupt parent firm of Ann Taylor, Footwear News reported. Under a restructuring, the conglomerate would close its Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico stores and its Catherines shops.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

To recover following a lackluster display over the holidays, Modell’s Sporting Goods has brought on a series of advisers with the inclusion of a chief restructuring officer. The retail chain has encountered slumping sales and a competitive field from eCommerce, as well as big-box retailers, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

According to a report in The Financial Times , the new rules, which require more verification for online payments of more than €30 and go into effect in September, require big changes to processes and technology at retailers, banks and payment groups. The new rules are aimed at reducing fraud. “The Candidly, the state of readiness is poor.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

Absolutely no need to panic, then — unless the topic is retail bankruptcies , which increased year over year by 24 percent. Yes, that seems an appropriately fine number to panic over. Such is the double-edged sword of a retail industry swept up in innovation. January — Wet Seal. February — Hancock Fabrics. As of Feb. As of Feb.

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E78 Partners

JUNE 16, 2025

But behind those numbers is a consistent, sobering pattern: 70 to 75 percent of M&A transactions fail to achieve their intended outcomes, whether that’s driving revenue growth, capturing cost synergies, or preserving shareholder value. ¹ How Many Mergers and Acquisitions Fail? A 40-year study of 40,000 deals reveals why.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2021

In Epiq's report on 2020 bankruptcy statistics, the firm found that 2020 had the lowest numbers since 1989, with 529,068 over all chapters, according to a press release. Those numbers are a measuring stick for the economy, and Chris Kruse, senior vice president of Epiq AACER. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

It was a tumultuous week for fashion retail and department stores. Next week could be a tipping point between the “great resettling” and the “great bankruptcy,” with short-term as well as long-term consequences for the retail landscape. It’s likely to be the largest such wave in modern retail history.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As of last year, Deutsche has been undergoing a restructuring effort that encompasses a decrease of its balance sheet, 18,000 employment reductions by 2022 and less investment banking activity. Deutsche’s move to decrease its number of locations comes after news that Commerzbank would not open 200 offices again that were closed amid COVID-19.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Retail, for all intents and purposes, has always been an interdependent system. And all retailers depend on the one constant that separates any business from a hobby: the customer. And all retailers depend on the one constant that separates any business from a hobby: the customer. 2) Owned retail outlets.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The retailer will ask for court approval of the arrangement that will place the companies as the stalking horse or lead bidders at an auction, The Wall Street Journal reported. The retailer said it would shutter a large number of brick-and-mortar stores around the globe per news at the time. came to a deal on Sunday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

That was well before pandemic-related mayhem disrupted, then fundamentally restructured, the grocery sector to favor well-heeled operators like Amazon and Walmart. This is despite the grocer recently announcing that it is deploying artificial intelligence (AI)-based shopping assistants in a number of locations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Barneys, which has 13 department stores and nine warehouse stores, will have to immediately shut down most of its locations and look for a buyer for seven core stores, according to the restructuring plan. That agreement, however, has not been sufficient to stem the losses, and it looks as though the retailer is running out of options.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

“[Malls] with strong locations were able to nab high-productivity tenants like Whole Foods, Wegmans and Nordstrom,” according to JLL’s Q2 Retail Outlook report. Those with only an average location had a harder time finding a replacement tenant, and when they did, it was usually a lower-performing, non-retail tenant.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When asked, fear of crowds surfaced as consumers’ primary reason for preferring to carry on with digital-first experiences when it comes to shopping for groceries (57 percent), purchasing retail products (52 percent) and even ordering food from restaurants (45 percent). The SMB Pinch.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

As the retail sector continues to undergo restructuring, a number of retail real estate markets face more vacancies and falling rents. Physical retailers have been suffering from the rise of eCommerce and Amazon’s knack for entering markets, disrupting them and eventually emerging as a leader.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A disappointing economic report for August, weak retail sales and industrial production and slower job growth are expected to prevent the Fed from increasing interest rates at least until December. A separate report showed consumer sentiment was steady in early September, which suggests that retail sales could rebound in the coming months.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Retailer BCBG Max Azria filed for bankruptcy and is making a major shift towards eCommerce, with a series of store closures that started earlier this year. 1) in federal court in Manhattan, Internet Retailer reported. 1) in federal court in Manhattan, Internet Retailer reported.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

For non-essential retail, once again rent is due and revenue is marginal. At least, however, landlords seem to be making accommodations for retail. It showed that as of April 20, it collected 69 percent of total April rent charges, broken down by 73 percent for office tenants and 46 percent for retail tenants. Keltner, Jr.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Usually hosted in early July, Prime Day was conceived to give consumers a reason to go shopping during the dog days of summer when retail sales generally hit their lowest point of the year. Longtime PYMNTS readers know the story of the Amazon effect across a lot of verticals — retail, grocery , payments. The Prime Day Push .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Domestic merchandise retailer Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock took a 12-point hit after Wall Street got a look at its latest earnings report and did not much like what it saw. Same-store sales — the Street’s favorite metric for physical retail — were down 2.6 Retail sales clocked in at approximately $2.9

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet. With operating margins, you are getting a handle on economies of scale.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

After adjusting for restructuring charges and other effects, Disney reported earnings of 60 cents a share, down from $1.61 a share a year ago.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

The question of whether a company is making or losing money should be a simple one to answer, especially in an age where accounting statements are governed by a myriad of rules, and a legion of number-crunchers follow these rules to report profits generated by a firm. The numbers yield interesting insights. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Embattled toy and game retailer Toys R Us may close 100 U.S. Store sales for the Wayne, New Jersey-based firm have declined 15 percent this holiday shopping season compared to last, and the number of brick-and-mortar toy stores shuttering after the holidays could reach as high as 200. Toys R Us received a $3.1

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2018

“Our new, hard infrastructure will be future-proofed to your imaginations, opening up a range of potential innovations in wholesale markets and corporate banking and retail services.”. We had a number of reasons for choosing Dash as one of the first digital assets we offer on our platform,” said AloGateway CEO Sherwin Quiambao in a statement.

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