2,000 jobs lost in rescue of High Street fashion chain Peacocks

Peacocks deal sees 2,000 jobs lost: Fashion chain to return to High Street after rescue by old management team By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:18 BST, 6 April 2021 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 6 April 2021 Fashion chain Peacocks will return to the High Street with 2,000 fewer staff after it was … Read more

Peacocks fashion chain bought out of administration: 200 stores and 2,000 jobs SAVED

2020 Bonmarché, the value-oriented clothing retailer, went into administration for the second time in a year on December 2, 2020. There are 226 stores and more than 1200 employees. It is owned as a separate business by Philip Day, whose EWM is also in crisis (see below). Philip Day put this company into administration a … Read more

Peacocks is back: 200 stores and 2,000 jobs SAVED as senior executive rescues collapsed chain

Peacocks is back: 200 stores and 2,000 jobs SAVED as senior executive rescues collapsed British fashion chain from administration after securing backing from international investors By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline Published: 07:35 BST, 6 April 2021 | Updated: 07:35 BST, 6 April 2021 Collapsed fashion chain Peacocks has been bought out of administration by a … Read more

Now Co-op goes peat-free: Supermarket chain stops selling compost with peat

Now Co-op goes peat-free: Supermarket chain stops selling compost with peat to help the fight against climate change after plea from Monty Don Natural peatlands absorb and store carbon which helps tackle climate change  Peat loses this function when it is dug up and sold in stores as part of compost Monty Don criticised the use … Read more

Union chief says huge salaries of school academy chain leaders is ‘verging on criminality’

Union chief says huge salaries of school academy chain leaders is ‘verging on criminality’ and have ‘little if no impact on student progress’ Phil Kemp, the new president of the NASUWT teaching union, made the claims He warns of ‘Wild West’ school system where education is in hands of a few CEOs Mr Kemp is … Read more

Call for shakeup of supply chain financing following Greensill debacle

We must learn lessons of Greensill debacle: Call for firms to become more transparent in major shakeup of supply chain financing By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 29 March 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 29 March 2021 It is the common thread running through the disastrous collapses of Carillion, NMC Health … Read more

Fashion chain Next emerges unscathed from coronavirus

Last year may have been worst on record for High Street – but from its share price, it appears fashion chain Next emerged unscathed By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:54 GMT, 26 March 2021 | Updated: 22:20 GMT, 26 March 2021 Last year may have been the worst on record for the … Read more

Now India bans AstraZeneca exports in fresh blow to Britain’s supply chain woes

India has banned AstraZeneca exports in a fresh blow to Britain’s supply chain woes after the EU last night threatened an embargo until deliveries are met. A second wave is gripping the country and there is increased demand for the doses made by the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s biggest vaccine-maker. The SII has … Read more

Barchester Healthcare: Fury as leading care provider chain puts up fees for elderly residents

Fury as leading care provider chain puts up fees for elderly residents by thousands to pay for increased costs Barchester Healthcare told relatives they will face extra costs to pay for rent Families who have hardly see their loved ones have been asked to pay to visit Comes after pay of chief executive Dr Pete … Read more