Article from Previous Loan11 Mar 2024 18:14
Superdry PLC (LSE:SDRY), the fashion retailer, saw its shares sink by close to 7% on Tuesday, after it announced it has secured a £25 million loan with restructuring firm, Hilco.
Shares in the group have dropped more than 52% in 2023, after a warning it would “broadly breakeven” in the current financial year, needing to cut costs by more than £35 million.
Superdry has already upped the loan facility it has with retail lender Bantry Bay to £80 million. The secondary lending facility with Hilco will be available for 12 months and at an interest rate of 10.5%, plus the Bank of England’s base rate on any drawn funds, according to a statement from the group.
Helping “mitigate the headroom cap” on Bantry Bay’s loan, the fresh funds will also help improve liquidity and speed up the implementation of the its turnaround plan and cost-reduction programme, the London-listed company said.
Concerns about the health of the business have been echoed by Peel Hunt, which predicts the group will make a full-year loss of £16.5 million as “trading over the summer has been mixed”.