大型供应商正着手与Poundland切断关系，这家折扣连锁店正滑向破产程序，可能导致数千人失业。
Major suppliers are moving to cut ties with Poundland as the discount chain lurches towards an insolvency process which threatens to unleash thousands of job losses.
天空新闻了解到，多家大型供应商已开始采取措施减少对这家折扣店的供货，此前有迹象表明它们本周将无法按计划收到货款。
Sky News understands that a number of big suppliers have begun taking steps to curtail deliveries to the discounter amid suggestions that they will not be paid as scheduled this week.
行业消息人士称，Poundland的多数股东戈登兄弟公司限制了该公司财务的使用权限，实际上使管理层无法进行日常付款。不过，该连锁店约1.05万名员工预计本月将按时领到工资。
Industry sources said that Gordon Brothers, Poundland's majority owner, had restricted access to the company's finances, effectively preventing its management team from making routine payments. The chain's roughly 10,500 staff were expected to be paid on time this month, however.
不断加深的危机意味着Poundland不太可能避免倒闭，其董事最早可能于周四提交任命管理人的意向通知。
The deepening crisis means that Poundland is unlikely to avert collapse, with its directors potentially filing a notice of intention to appoint administrators as early as Thursday.
天空新闻周二披露，戈登兄弟公司两周前刚刚引入的三名董事正在辞职，以抗议该股东的行为，此前一项对Poundland的偿债能力收购要约被否决，转而选择破产程序。
Sky News revealed on Tuesday that a trio of directors drafted in by Gordon Brothers just a fortnight ago were in the process of resigning in protest at the owner's behaviour, after a solvent takeover bid for Poundland was rejected in favour of an administration process.
Poundland的危机——该公司在首相安迪·伯纳姆的梅克菲尔德选区运营着一个配送中心——已经引起政府关注，商业、创新、科学和贸易部的一名高级官员正在向出售程序的参与方进行询问。
The crisis at Poundland - which operates a distribution centre in Prime Minister Andy Burnham's Makerfield constituency - has already drawn attention from the government, with a senior official at the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade making enquiries of participants in the sale process.
零售业高管目前预测，Poundland的倒闭将成为自2016年BHS停止交易以来政治上最具争议的零售业破产案。
Retail executives are now predicting that a collapse of Poundland would become the most politically contentious retail insolvency since BHS ceased trading in 2016.
如果周四提交任命AlixPartners为管理人的意向通知，将触发为期十天的暂停期，在此期间Poundland管理层将争分夺秒地尽可能保住更多工作岗位。
If a notice of intention to appoint AlixPartners as administrators is filed on Thursday, it will trigger a ten-day moratorium while Poundland's management scramble to salvage as many jobs as possible.
消息人士称，戈登兄弟公司与该连锁店管理层之间的关系近几周急剧恶化，后者一直在努力为该业务争取一个有偿债能力的结果。
Sources said that relations between Gordon Brothers and the chain's management team, who have fought to secure a solvent outcome for the business, had deteriorated sharply in recent weeks.
其中一种说法是，Poundland高管被Gordon Brothers指控违反了资产支持贷款安排条款，原因是尽管已有约定的宽限期，他们仍未按时向股东提交预算——而目前业务表现已超出这些预测。
One suggested that Poundland executives had been accused by Gordon Brothers of breaching the terms of an asset-based lending facility by failing to submit a budget to the shareholders on time despite an agreed grace period - with the business now outperforming those forecasts.
在约翰·希利公布预算后数小时内就提交任命管理人的通知，这将被解读为对政府的更广泛打击，因为零售商抱怨该预算完全没有解决行业对成本上升的担忧。
The filing of a notice to appoint administrators within hours of John Healey's budget will be interpreted as a wider blow to the government, with retailers complaining it did nothing to address the industry's concerns about rising costs.
“Poundland没有理由进入破产程序，”一位接近该进程的消息人士表示。
"There is no reason for Poundland to be in insolvency proceedings," said one source close to the process.
总部位于爱尔兰的Martin Property Group曾对公司提出有偿付能力的收购要约——包括保留Makerfield仓库——周四上午仍有一线希望，即Gordon Brothers改变立场可能使其得以复活。
Irish-based Martin Property Group had made a solvent offer for the company - including preserving the Makerfield warehouse - and there were still faint hopes on Thursday morning that a change of stance from Gordon Brothers might allow it to be revived.
Poundland经营约600家门店，包括通过爱尔兰的Dealz连锁店。
Poundland trades from about 600 stores, including via the Dealz chain in Ireland.
公司少数股权由在华沙上市的Pepco Group持有，该公司在夏季以仅1英镑的价格向Gordon Brothers出售了一笔3000万英镑的股东贷款。
A minority stake in the company is owned by Warsaw-listed Pepco Group, which sold a £30m shareholder loan to Gordon Brothers during the summer for just £1.
Gordon Brothers在为期八周的出售过程中一直坚持要求潜在竞标者全额偿还这3000万英镑——Martin Property Group已同意在到期时偿还。
Gordon Brothers has been insisting during the eight-week sale process that potential bidders repay the full £30m - which Martin Property Group had agreed to do at maturity.
然而，据了解，现所有者担心Poundland可能在该日期之前被清算，这意味着它将无法获得贷款的全额偿还。
However, the current owner is understood to have expressed concern that Poundland could be liquidated before that date, meaning it would miss out on full repayment of the loan.
包括竞争对手Poundstretcher、B&M、Iceland和The Range在内的多家零售商已表示有兴趣收购数量不等的Poundland门店。
A pack of retailers, including rival Poundstretcher, B&M, Iceland and The Range, have expressed interest in varying numbers of Poundland stores.
即使经历了去年出售引发的关店计划，Poundland仍是英国最大的综合商品零售商之一。
Even after a store closure programme triggered by its sale last year, Poundland remains one of the biggest general merchandise retailers in the UK.
记者未能联系到Poundland和Gordon Brothers置评。
Neither Poundland nor Gordon Brothers could be reached for comment.