Camera shop Jessops calls in administrators
High Street
Retail:
Yet another
struggling retailer is looking to close stores, with a possible loss
of the company’s 500 employees’ jobs if all the shops were to
fold.
Even Dragons Den
star and serial business owner Peter Jones, who owns camera shop
chain, cannot sprinkle the necessary stardust, it would seem, to
make a success of the venture.
Peter Jones bought
the Jessops chain with the well known High Street brand name from the
administrators himself back in 2013 after the then business collapsed
owning creditors around £81m.
Jones has managed to
increase sales revenues in most of the years since his own purchase,
but the firm’s profits remain stubbornly low as rents have risen,
falling to less than £10,000 last year.
It is reported that
Mr Jones will now seek a complex rescue deal for the firm’s property
arm, JR Prop Limited, a company voluntary agreement (CVA) with its
landlords and lenders at a time when empty High Street shops have
reached their highest level in the last four years.
This CVA is an
insolvency process that allows a business to agree with its creditors
how it will pay off its debts, or a part of its debts, and is often
an opportunity to close unprofitable shops while retaining profitable
ones with renegotiated rents.
The BBC has reported
that sources close to the firm think Jones still sees a good future
for the business but has given no indication of which shops may
close.
Jones’ thinking
when taking over was that even though almost every mobile phone
incorporates a camera – some capable of taking better photos than a
dedicated camera – was that there was still a market for the
specialist camera sold through a High Street store and online.
However, sales have not met these expectations.
The second administration of Jessops follows a long line of failed High Street retailers with the likes of Maplin, Poundworld and Toys R Us and Debenhams either going down the tubes completely or going through the pre-pack CVA process. A whole host of others have gone through this CVA restructuring process.
With each High
Street closure, property values are affected and landlords are put
under more pressure to reduce rents.
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