> A tweet from the @glasstimes Twitter account reads as follows: "The Epwin Group and Latium have merged with immediate effect to create Epwin Holdings, a 275million turnover building products group." To be honest, I'm a little bit gutted I didn't know anything about this! But I'll get over it!My immediate reaction was one of surprise. But [...]
>The Green Deal has been on shaky ground ever since the details of the deal have been researched and found to be inconsistent at best. However, the Government's latest set of figures could spell the end for a deal which has had so much lobbying, hours of debate in Parliament, and I'm sure many millions [...]
>First strikes, and now job losses. I have learned that 19 jobs are to go at Total Window Systems in Devon, a company within the Epwin Group.I'm reluctant to say that these job losses are a reaction/punishment for the strikes actually taking place. More likely it is the harsh economic environment that every window company [...]
>2011 was a very tough year for the high-street. It never seemed to be out of the news. Either someone was in administration, or someone was about to go into administration.I found a website which lists the retailers that have gone over the course of 2011. Warning, the list below is a bit of a [...]
>It was announced today that for the second time, high street shoe retailers Barratt's is to go into administration, putting nearly 4000 jobs at risk.The first time their owners went into administration they had to reduce the number of stores by 220 from 380. In total the brand has 191 stores throughout the UK on [...]
>The Government is set to score a huge own goal on 12th December, when it implements a massive 52% cut to the feed-in-tariff from companies who sell their unused energy supplies back to the national grid.Indeed, this is going to make life for solar panel businesses very hard. We had ours done for free by [...]
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