US: Hot Topic to close stores, cut jobs as Q3 profit slumps
Author: just-style.com | 17 November 2010
Teen retailer Hot Topic Inc is to close up to 50 stores and axe 14% of its head office and field management jobs after third quarter profit plunged 93%.
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