Pursuits
Pacific Sunwear Has ‘Retailer’s Dream’ as Bankruptcy Wraps Up
- California clothier used Chapter 11 to cut debt, stay open
- Reorganized company will be owned by Golden Gate Capital
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Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. won court approval to exit bankruptcy after cutting debt, closing some stores and pressuring landlords to reduce rent at the malls where the teen-clothing chain does business.
“That’s every distressed retailer’s dream,” Poonam Goyal, a retail analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence said in an interview. But whether Anaheim, California-based PacSun can succeed is unclear, Goyal said. Most retailers in the U.S. have too many stores and need to cut back, she said.