All articles by Finn Scott-Delany – Page 50
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Honest redeploys staff to retail and care sectors
Honest Burgers has created a scheme to allow furloughed members staff to be seconded to other businesses, particular in retail and care.
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St Austell safeguards all 2,000 staff
St Austell Brewery has put more than 75% of its staff on furlough, protecting all 2,000 jobs.
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Landlords threaten winding up orders over unpaid rent
UK landlords are threatening legal action against hospitality operators after many withheld rent to preserve cash during the lockdown, the Financial Times reports.
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Boxparks shuts down delivery operation
Boxpark has completely shut all of its sites, with tenants still operating as a delivery service to cease trading.
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Pizza Hut leads donations for Deliveroo NHS appeal
Pizza Hut is leading donations towards a Deliveroo appeal to give 500,000 meals to NHS workers.
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Hammerson collects 37% of billed rent
Hammerson, the property and development company, has received 37% of UK rent billed as of the end of 27 March.
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Directors protected against trading while insolvent
The UK government has announced changes to insolvency laws to prevent company directors being accused of wrongful trading.
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Howard Kennedy: Rules of ‘financial Darwinism’ no longer apply
Unprecedented is a word that’s been used so much in the past few weeks it’s lost of much its intended impact. Yet it’s a reasonable claim from Chancellor Rishi Sunak that the package of emergency measures he introduced last week were indeed without precedent, not only for a Conservative government, ...
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Carluccio’s on the verge administration
Carluccio’s is on the verge of administration, it emerged this evening.
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City Pub Co raises £15m after share placing
City Pub Group has raised £15m from existing shareholders and other institutional investors this morning after placing 30m of new ordinary shares.
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Pizza Hut Restaurants: ‘We are providing a service to the community’
Pizza Hut Restaurants CEO Jens Hofma has told MCA keeping 48 restaurants operating as delivery-only kitchens was the “right thing to do”, by helping ease the pressure on supermarkets and feeding those in need.
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Greene King confirms pay and furlough for all 38,000 staff
Greene King has confirmed pay and furlough arrangements for its 38,000 team members while its pubs remain closed due to coronavirus.
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Roadchef closes restaurants, puts staff on furlough
Roadchef has now closed all its restaurant units and put 1,000 staff on furlough.
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Shepherd Neame puts 85% of staff on leave
Shepherd Neame is putting the majority of its staff on temporary leave while asked those remaining to take pay cuts.
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Byron hires KPMG to access emergency funding
Byron has hired KPMG to explore options for accessing emergency funding and to shore up its balance sheet, Sky News reports.
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British Land releases small tenants from rental obligations
British Land has released its smaller retail, food & beverage and leisure tenants from their rental obligations for three months (April to June).
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JDW agrees to pay furloughed staff
JD Wetherspoon has reversed a decision to withhold staff pay until a government rescue package kicks in.
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Bottle shops within breweries exempt from closures
Licenced shops selling alcohol, including those within breweries, are exempt from the UK shutdown, the government has clarified.
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Grind: 'No one will lose their jobs as a result of the virus'
Grind, the restaurant, coffee shop and bar brand, has vowed none of its staff will lose their jobs as a result of the virus.
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Shaftesbury: Supporting tenants the ‘right thing to do’
Shaftesbury, the West End landlord, is supporting tenants with rent deferral, to help ease their short-term cash flow issues so they can resume trading once the current restrictions are lifted.