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...Many sectors have raised fears about surging energy bills this winter but high street salons and spas are particularly worried, given they must fund the cost of running numerous electrical gadgets as well...
...During the past couple of years, buyout firm Investindustrial has taken over packaging group Guala Closures and tomato sauce producer La Doria....
...Beit Michael is adjacent to the boutique hotel Adrère Amellal (adrereamellal.com), which has double rooms from about €750 per night Disappointment The effective closure of Iran....
...Letter in response to this article: Covid fraud is one thing, unpaid taxes quite another / From Marianne Pitts, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK...
...Next winter’s opening of a new 84-room, four-star, Le Wood Hotel & Spa, ought to raise the bar, however....
...The news of Domino’s closure in Italy, first reported by Bloomberg, is another indication of the mixed fortunes of US restaurant brands hoping to succeed among exacting Italian consumers....
...There would be 4,000 lay-offs and further branch closures. The Italian state will contribute €1.6bn in proportion to its 64 per cent shareholding....
...The take-up is phenomenal and in 2022, despite the 104-day enforced closure, 133,396 rounds were played across the three layouts....
...Wales struggled economically during the 1980s and ’90s, largely due to the closure of factories and coal mines (and generally lags behind the rest of the UK)....
...Waggett, chief executive of Third Space, a boutique gym operator in London, added the company was on a “week to week rollercoaster” as it tried to manage costs and maintain its high-end saunas, pools and spa...
...Though the closure of small resorts creates worrying headlines, the impact on the sport as a whole is limited, argues Vanat....
...With hotel guests partially subsidising long-term residents, and grand old (if virtually falling down) interiors, it continued to attract romantics until its sale and closure – as a hotel, anyway – in 2011...
...The lender plans to quietly put its staff in the city on paid leave to support them, but not attract any adverse attention from the state by announcing a closure....
...article was edited on 19 Jan 2021 to reflect that the new owner of the land bordering Manby hot springs is not a real-estate developer and that it was the Bureau of Land Management who decided to enforce closure...
...Marianne Pitts Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK...
...Amid the closure of chains such as Flywheel, online exercise became a phenomenon. Yet demand has run out of puff....
...Please tell us what you think of the FCA’s plan in the comments section below Letters in response to this article: Cash is king, even as Post Office branches close / From Marianne Pitts, Leamington Spa...
...Nowhere was the pressure to draw young fans more pronounced than at Ferragamo, where prolonged store closures and global lockdowns led to a 33 per cent sales decline in 2020....
...Polar cruises Border closures meant that last year no cruise ships made it down to Antarctica during the austral summer....
...The highlight of my stay was a 90-minute massage in the spa. I don’t think I have ever actually felt relaxed, but I have read about it in books and this is what it must be like....
...The brand’s revenues dropped 38.5 per cent during the first nine months of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019, amid prolonged boutique closures and global lockdowns to combat the march of the coronavirus...
...It was battered by the waves of store closures during last year’s lockdowns, but rebounded in the second half, allowing the group to reach positive pre-tax earnings for 2020....
...On the same day as Jiangsu FC’s abrupt closure, Suning confirmed a state-backed investment in its online retail unit, Suning.com....
...The hospitality group, which also owns 20 restaurants, 16 spas and two cinemas, declined to comment on the plans, first reported in The Times....
...Additional branch closures are also possible beyond the planned sales to BPER, another Italian bank....
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