{"id":167004,"date":"2020-07-27T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/arcadia-headed-for-another-restructure\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:06:39","slug":"arcadia-headed-for-another-restructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/arcadia-headed-for-another-restructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Arcadia headed for another restructure"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sir Philip Green's fashion retail empire. Arcadia, is reported to be on the verge of carrying out another restructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The group, which owns brands such as Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and Burton, has submitted its proposals to the Pensions Regulator, The Sunday Times<\/em><\/a> has reported. The company has a deficit of \u00a3727m in its pension funds.<\/strong><\/p>\n Last year the group secured approval from creditors for a series of CVAs<\/a> across its brands to enable it to close 50 stores and it also closed down Topshop's US business. A further 12 closures were revealed in January.<\/a><\/p>\n During the COVID-19 lockdown it announced 500 redundancies from the 2,500 staff at its London headquarters,<\/strong> while directors had all take pay-cuts during the crisis with CEO Ian Grabiner waiving ihis salary altogether.<\/p>\n It has not been revealed what form the new restructuring might take but it has previously been reported<\/a> that the 550-store group was in talks with landlords over\u00a0leases with rolling break clauses,<\/strong>\u00a0allowing the group to terminate a lease at any time during a term.<\/p>\n