Are more restaurants going bankrupt nowadays?

Popeye’s. TGI Fridays. Roti. Buca di Beppo. And of course Red Lobster. These are just a few of more than a dozen high-profile restaurant chains that have declared bankruptcy in 2024. On one level, what we’re seeing is some restaurants buckle under the intense pressures the past two years have brought. There were the shortages, inflation, and…

Essex ‘drainage protection’ company shut down following abusive cold-calling of vulnerable people

Home Drainage Protection Service Ltd aggressively cold-called pensioners, people with medical conditions and other vulnerable people offering fake drainage protection plans  The company’s crude sales tactics included threatening people with the police and bailiffs if they did not sign up to their service  The firm also made unexplained payments worth millions of pounds to dozens…

KTM Facing Insolvency: Effects on Upper Austria and the Austrian Economy – Vindobona.org

People › Other Published: December 2, 2024; 14:32 (Vindobona) The longstanding Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM is on the brink of collapse. The company filed applications for restructuring proceedings with self-administration with the Ried Regional Court. The company’s financial difficulties are serious: with liabilities of over 1.8 billion euros, the KTM crisis is one of the…

KTM enters self-administration, debts of over $3 billion

Rennie Scaysbrook | December 3, 2024 November 2024 will go down as one of the darkest periods ever for KTM, the Austrian motorcycle giant entering a self-administration debt restructuring plan with the Austrian Ried Regional Court on November 29 with reported liabilities of a staggering €2.9 billion ($3.03 billion). Self-administration is a European market measure…