News that Australias third-largest pizza chain Eagle Boys has been placed in administration suggests a bleak future may lie ahead for the company. Administrators have indicated they are in the process of identifying restructuring measures”. But research by ARITAs Mark Wellard (formerly from QUT) on the effectiveness of voluntary administration indicates that a sustainable rescue…
Retail billionaire Sir Philip Green has been savaged by MPs in a report into the collapse of department store BHS, which he owned from 2000 until March last year. The Work and Pensions Committee and the Business, Innovation, and Skills Select Committee have been holding a joint inquiry into the collapse of BHS, which fell…
Updated July 22, 2016 2:36 p.m. ET More than 120 Hastings Entertainment stores are set to begin going-out-of-business sales this weekend after a pair of liquidators won court approval to buy its assets. The joint venture between Hilco Merchant Resources LLC and Gordon Brothers Retail Partners received approval on Thursday from a judge in the…
Indias corporate litigation domain is on the verge of a major overhaul as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government seeks to improve the ease of doing business with a series of measures to accelerate dispute resolution. Over the last two years, the government has already unveiled a number of measures to ensure that the time…
Photo by Max Efrein. The Prescott areas sole Hastings is closing along with the companys 122 other brick and mortar locations throughout the country. No firm closure date has been released. PRESCOTT – The fate of Hastings has been determined. The company has been purchased by a joint venture that will…
The fast food industry can be a brutal business. When it is wrapped around a franchise system, it can be even more so. The latest to feel the pain is one of the country’s biggest pizza chains, Eagle Boys, which plunged into administration a week ago, throwing its franchise network into panic. Over the past…
A former England and Wycombe Wanderers footballer who turned to armed robbery after racking up gambling debts from a habit he picked up in the top flight has been jailed for 15 years. Nathan Ashton, 29, who played premiership football for Fulham before starting a career in the lower divisions targeted betting shops across the…
Comments (2) A PORT Talbot engineering company with strong links to the steel industry has closed, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs in the area. Fairwood Fabrications has announced it will cease trading after going into liquidation. The company has been involved in the steel industry for more than 35 years. The company had supplied…
Two film investment companies which Ive exposed now face being shut down. The High Court heard this week how Spice Factory Limited and Gummy Bear Films Limited raised around £3million from members of the public for an animated film, supposedly featuring the voice of John Travolta. They were promised a 125% return as soon as…
Nick Learned, Townsquare Media Employees of the Laramie Hastings will likely find themselves out of work as all Hastings Entertainment stores are set to be liquidated and closed. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five weeks ago. Wednesday, a joint venture of Hilco Merchant Resources LLC and Gordon Brothers Retail Partners LLC purchased Hastings Entertainment…