Saks Global’s luxury gamble fails
Wall Street Breakfast
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning. |
| 0:07.6 | It's good to have you here on this Wednesday, January 14th. I'm Julie Morgan. |
| 0:13.7 | A high-end retail gamble backfires, a coffee sale falls apart, and Tesla makes a big change to FSD. |
| 0:22.6 | SACS Global has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy just a year after buying Neiman Marcus for $2.7 billion, |
| 0:30.2 | a deal that left the luxury retailer buried in debt. |
| 0:33.9 | This marks one of the biggest retail bankruptcies since the pandemic. The company is reviewing its |
| 0:39.5 | store and business footprint to focus on areas with the strongest long-term potential. Court filings |
| 0:45.6 | show Sacks lists between $1 and $10 billion in both assets and liabilities. Several luxury brands |
| 0:52.3 | are among its largest unsecured creditors, including LVMH and Chanel. |
| 0:57.8 | Sacks has lined up about $1.75 billion in financing to keep operations running during bankruptcy and to support a turnaround. |
| 1:06.9 | The company expects to emerge from Chapter 11 later this year. |
| 1:15.6 | Sacks also named a former Neiman Marcus CEO as its new chief executive. |
| 1:20.8 | Sacks Global was formed after Hudson's Bay bought Neiman Marcus in 2024, |
| 1:25.8 | bringing Sacks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf-Gutman, and Neiman Marcus together. |
| 1:29.1 | But the company was already facing a slowdown in luxury spending and payment delays to vendors even before that deal. Coca-Cola has canceled |
| 1:35.9 | its plan to sell Costa coffee after private equity bids fell short of what they were expecting. |
| 1:41.9 | According to a Financial Times report that cites people familiar with the matter, |
| 1:46.5 | they ended negotiations back in December. The report added that TDR Capital and Bane Capital's Special |
| 1:52.9 | Situations Fund were among the bidders in the final round of negotiations. |
| 1:58.1 | Coca-Cola sought around 2 billion pounds, roughly half the 3.9 billion pounds it |
| 2:03.3 | paid to acquire Costa from Whitbread in 2018. A source added that the company may revisit this plan |
| 2:10.5 | at a later date. Tesla will stop selling full self-driving after February 14th. The CEO said in a post on X that FSD will only |
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