RE: New Name!!30 Mar 2023 11:23
The company was poorly run and encountered the inevitable lack of cash flow to cover debts as they came due, ITS could have had £100m of stock and gone bust if they were not selling it and couldn’t raise new capital.
You only had to look at the accounts and the margins / returns costs / admin fees, they bought tons of winter wear they couldn’t sell at full price, then look on their website and see what was on clearance, they were working on thin margins after costs as it was, then they were selling £100-150 products with a probable cost of £60-70 for £30-40.
Majority of their sales were marked down items, they sold very little new product.
Everything leased, rented.
There were other ways the company could have dealt with it, should have raised more capital as soon as they could have after IPO, they didn’t and probably didn’t want to take the dilution hits at time, and then share price dropped off anyway.
Unfortunately Very poor management of shareholder funds and suppliers credit lines isn’t illegal.