Interpath selected for Quiz Clothing administration

After difficult buying and selling circumstances prompted a drop in gross sales, style retailer Quiz Clothing has fallen into administration. Professionals from Interpath Advisory will oversee the sale of the agency’s property.

Based in Scotland in 1993, Quiz is a excessive road style retailer working throughout the UK and the Republic of Eire, in addition to on-line. Using round 565 members of employees in its 47 areas, the agency has endured robust financial headwinds in latest months.

With client spending energy declining amid a cost-of-living disaster, price pressures have additionally put stress on the corporate’s backside line. And whereas gross sales had been reported to be stronger than anticipated by way of to the top of September 2025, they fell beneath expectations throughout the essential Christmas buying and selling interval, each on-line and in-store.

In consequence, Quiz Clothing has fallen into administration with 109 head workplace and warehouse employees shedding their jobs, with tons of extra in danger. The retailer’s areas will proceed to commerce, with most staff retained to help the directors in buying and selling the corporate whereas they assess the out there choices; nonetheless, its on-line retailer will shut.

Alistair McAlinden and Geoff Jacobs from Interpath will now oversee the sale of Orion Retail, Tarak Worldwide, and Zandra Techniques, collectively buying and selling as Quiz Clothing. In the meantime, Quiz concessions which commerce from New Look and Matalan shops within the UK, are not a part of the administration processes.

McAlinden, head of Interpath in Scotland, commented, “It’s our intention to proceed to commerce all shops and the concessions in Eire as a going concern for so long as we are able to whereas we assess choices for the enterprise. We’re tremendously grateful for the assist of Quiz’s staff and administrators who will work alongside us as we commerce the enterprise over the approaching weeks.”

Quiz is the most recent retailer to fall into administration, amid a troublesome begin to 2026 for the UK excessive road. Within the final week alone, 14 different excessive road retailers have collapsed, together with LK Bennett, and The Authentic Manufacturing unit Store.

Jacobs, managing director at Interpath, added, “Any events with an curiosity in buying the inventory, retailer operations and infrastructure of Quiz ought to contact us as a matter of urgency. We’re guaranteeing that these staff impacted by redundancy are supplied with all out there assist at this tough time.”