Avoiding Retail Bankruptcy: Overloaded with Debt, Retailers Must Focus on Cash Management and Cost Takeouts

Five best practices for retailers to manage cash, cut costs, and stay afloat as debt comes due

In late 2017, a Bloomberg headline read, “America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning.” The main culprit, the authors suggested, was the amount of high-yield debt on company balance sheets, which would balloon just as a record wall of debt across all industries came due.

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USA, Insolvency & Restructuring, Berkeley Research Group, LLC, Supply chain, Consumer & retail, Financial services
Authors:
Murali Gokki , Joe Schmitt , Shawn Ashworth , Chapman H. Kistler
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USA
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Berkeley Research Group, LLC
Key Economic Data Report 2024

The BRG Corporate Finance Key Economic Data Report reviews GDP and consumer confidence; inflation and real earnings; employment; housing; auto sales and production; retail sales; interest rates; high-yield index; bankruptcies; defaults; and commodity prices.

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European Union, United Kingdom, USA, Company & Commercial, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Real Estate, Tax, Berkeley Research Group, LLC
Location:
European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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Berkeley Research Group, LLC