Adams call in the administrators
Around 50 jobs are now at risk at seven shops in the Black Country and Staffordshire after children's clothing chain Adams called in administrators.
The 75-year-old Midland-based firm, which makes clothes for Boots and has its own-brand Adams children's stores, is the latest victim of the retail crisis.
The company has 500 outlets including 260 of its own shops in the UK and is understood to employ around 2,000 people.
Staff at the Victoria Arcade Adams store in Wolverhampton's Mander Centre declined to comment but confirmed seven people worked there.
At Park Street in Walsall there were posters advertising 50 per cent off and three workers on duty.
Sabina Bashir, aged 24, manager of the store in Bearwood Road, Smethwick, said: "We haven't been told anything at all yet, only what we have heard on the news."
The company also has shops at Cannock Shopping Centre; Lower Brook Street in Rugeley and the Three Spires Shopping Centre in Lichfield, as well as the Farley Centre, off High Street, West Bromwich; and in Ryemarket, Stourbridge.
The branch in Crabbery Street, Stafford, closed just over a year ago.
Adams was set up in 1933 in Birmingham and is now based in Nuneaton. The company is owned by John Shannon, who bought it out of administration in February last year.
