In response to a courtroom submitting on Friday, Mattress Tub & Past Inc BBBY goes to close its operations in Canada. 

The corporate has filed its Canadian division for defense beneath the Corporations Collectors Association Act, Canada’s tough equal of chapter 11 chapter, stories Reuters. 

Mattress Tub & Past operates 54 Mattress Tub & Past shops and 11 Buybuy Child shops in Canada. The corporate has 387 full-time workers and 1,038 part-time workers within the nation. 

As per the courtroom submitting, the Canadian enterprise doesn’t have the “capability or potential to independently impact a recapitalization or restructuring of the Canadian operations with out entry to money and the help” from the mother or father firm and its lenders. 

The courtroom submitting additionally stated that as of Nov. 26, the Mattress Tub & Past banner in Canada had complete property of about $427.4 million and complete liabilities of roughly $342.8 million. 

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The Canada enterprise is not worthwhile and has generated internet losses for the 9 months that ended Nov. 26, the courtroom submitting provides. 

Final week, the corporate raised about $225 million in an fairness providing and stated it’d get one other $800 million over the following 10 months.

Final yr, in August, Mattress Tub & Past introduced plans to shut roughly 150 “lower-producing” shops as a part of a strategic enterprise assessment.

Later, the home merchandise retailer stated it might shut an extra 87 shops and its whole Harmon chain of drugstores.

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