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Collapsed retail giant Edinburgh Woollen Mill has been saved in a deal that will protect 1,500 jobs and 250 stores. Philip Days Jaeger will be taken over by Marks & Spencer in a separate agreement as the deal between the retail tycoon and Middle Eastern investors is set to be finalised. Retailers Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Homes and Bonmarche, owned by the businessmans EWM group, will be sold to a consortium of international investors, according to The Telegraph.  Administrators at FRP con...

Reply(1) If youre looking for the best spot in town to grab a delicious hot breakfast sandwich, here are four of Patchs top choices in Greenwich. (Courtesy Robert Guerrieri) GREENWICH, CT — Unusual as it may sound, you can tell a lot about a local eatery based on their breakfast sandwiches. The way a place handles their morning sandwich selection can say a lot about their style, attention to quality and penchant for variety. When thinking of these types of sandwiches, the casual customer like...

Online greeting card and gift retailer has become one of the market's biggest players in the UK

The online greeting cards chain Moonpig will fire the gun on a £1 billion-plus stock exchange listing as soon as next week.The company is expected to be the first significant stock market flotation of

- So here we are, a couple of months into 2021. The plague year is gone. We emerged, blinking blearily, into a brave new dawn. We kept blinking, then started squinting. This all looks... very similar to that old, crap year we just got rid of. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Wake me up if the Euros ends up happening. Yes, were sick of it all, but one of the few bright spots of the last year was that all the extra time we had to devote to pottering around online led to some truly choice memes. ...

Bakery chain Greggs has warned it could face an annual loss of £15million after sales slumped by almost a third amid the coronavirus crisis in Britain. Chief Executive Roger Whiteside said last November that the chain would no longer be profitable as a business if sales continued at the rates seen under previous lockdowns. The Newcastle-based bakery, which has axed more than 800 jobs due to the crisis, has now revealed like-for-like sales fell by nearly a fifth over its fourth quarter to Jan...

Pizza Restaurant Brunch Menu Vancouver | Georges Pizza Georges Pizza, a leading pizzeria in Vancouver, has announced Pizza Tuesdays to beat up the weekday blues by offering you a small-sized pizza with four toppings for only $11. Vancouver, British Columbia - December 29, 2020 - Serving the community since 1973, Georges Pizza has been providing its customers with the best Italian food in Vancouver. Their food is rooted in the traditions and heritage of Greece. That means rustic country cooking...

By Alec Mattinson2020-12-18T12:33:00+00:00 Coronavirus has caused some food and drink share prices to soar but it’s not been as simple as adding extra sales For food and drink retailers and suppliers, 2020 will be wholly defined, share price-wise, by the coronavirus pandemic. So who have been the winners and losers? As so much grocery shopping has shifted to online, it is little surprise the top-performing stocks in the UK and internationally are direct-to-consumer brands – Naked Wines and ...

Article content London’s mid-cap index rose for a fourth straight day on Thursday with investors believing the UK and European Union would bridge the gaps to a post-Brexit trade deal, while advertising firm WPP jumped after an upbeat sales forecast. The domestically focussed FTSE 250 gained 1% as the European Union’s chief negotiator said progress had been made. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or British mid-caps gain for fourth day as Brexit t...

By Amy North2020-12-17T12:30:00+00:00 Source: Getty Images Sales at travel specialist SSP Group have halved as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and ‘effective shut down’ of the global travel market. Like-for-like sales at the group, which operates Upper Crust, have fallen by 50.8% for the year ended 30 September 2020. However, this was slightly offset by net contract gains of 2.9%. Revenue was down 47.9% to £1,433.1m at constant currency with a pre-tax loss of £425.8m on a reported bas...