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...Anne Sammon, partner at law firm Pinsent Masons, said staff whose base pay was hiked when the bonus cap was introduced “will be contractually entitled to those higher salaries and so will only give those...
...“There seems to be a global momentum towards more permissive legal approaches in a wide range of different countries,” said Dominic Wilkinson, professor of medical ethics at Oxford university....
...Asked whether there were resources available to plug the pension deficit at Amalgamated Holdings Wilkinson Limited, the ultimate parent of Wilko that is owned by a series of family trusts, Wilkinson said...
...The Wilkinson family and Jackson did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
...The total sum owed to unsecured creditors includes three Wilko subsidiaries — Wilkinson Hardware Stores Limited, wilko.com Limited and Wilko Limited — as well as lease liabilities....
...Former Wilko chair Lisa Wilkinson told MPs on Thursday that the owner of the British retailer did not have assets “to fill a £50mn pension hole” as she was quizzed about the collapse of the high-street chain...
Private equity firm questions fairness of offer process as discount chain’s future remains undecided
Total of 12,500 jobs at risk as chain disappears from high street after almost a century
Private equity firm M2 Capital had not provided administrators with proof of funding by a Thursday morning deadline
Failure of rescue talks with prospective suitors puts around 12,500 jobs at risk
...Jonathan Griffin, a director at Amalgamated Holdings Wilkinson Limited, the ultimate owner of Wilko, said dividend payments did not contribute to Wilko going into administration and said they “were paid...
Discounter has agreed to take on leases with plans to convert them to its own brand
...The celebrated Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker isn’t known for her sense of fun. Of the 60 works she now has to her name, most are austere, exacting exercises in musicality....
PwC continues to seek buyer for UK discount retailer after its collapse earlier this month
...“Much needed cash was taken out of the business by the Wilkinson family even when it was struggling....
Rival discounter B&M to acquire 51 stores but a similar number will close next week
...A recapitalisation could lead to the Wilkinson family relinquishing majority control....
...Anne Cecilie Haug, senior architect at international practice Snøhetta, is extolling the virtues of building in engineered timber....
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...to be a global momentum towards more permissive legal approaches in a wide range of different countries,” said Dominic Wilkinson, professor of medical ethics at Oxford university....
...“When the big retailers such as Marks & Spencer and Laura Ashley started to do off-shore sourcing in the ’80s and early ’90s, that was the death of a lot of textile companies in the UK,” Woodhouse says....
...Anne-Sophie Corbeau, global research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, noted what she said were signs of “overconfidence” among European policymakers in their efforts...
...“That’s just who Ana is,” says Anne-Gaëlle Van de Weghe, a close friend and the wife of TEFAF’s Christophe Van de Weghe....
...French-tinged work by another Hawick painter, Anne Redpath, was “kicking around the town”, in his line of sight at the museum and library....
...Anne Richards, chief executive of Fidelity International, also made the case for “revisiting” global rules around banking or crafting “entirely new ones” in light of the handling of recent failures....
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