Simply chop off the tail of the 30-or-so stores (of the company's total 350 stores) that are likely to be loss-making, and you'll be able to lift Pre-Tax Profit by 20% or 30% instantly.
All that is needed is a few millions of dollars of capital to settle provisions for onerous leases.
That's precisely what new private equity owners would do.
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