Courts (retailer)

[citation needed] On Monday 29 November 2004, shares in Courts plc were suspended at 13.5p and the company went into administration,[3] with debts of £280 million.

[citation needed] The reasons given for entering administration were a fall in sales in the country, combined with the financial cost of the damage caused by Hurricane Ivan to the company's Caribbean arm.

SB Capital, owners of Furnitureland, acquired the largest number of former UK branches.

[4] As of November 2023, there are four Courts stores in the USA, located in Jamaica, Brooklyn, The Bronx and Miramar, Florida.

Courts branded stores are operated in Fiji and Papua New Guinea by Vision Investments Limited.

[6] Following the collapse of BAIC in 2015, the Mauritius stores were acquired in a management buyout, after a failed acquisition attempt by Courts Asia.