Your top 10: Wafer biscuit maker’s sad demise, accountants join forces and it’s bottoms up for JW Lees
THE demise of the pink wafer biscuit maker Wigan-based Rivington Biscuits with the loss of 99 jobs was the most read story on our website this week.
What a horrible time of the year for those workers to lose their jobs. It will be no comfort to the people now out of work that main reason cited for the company’s failure was the fall in the value of sterling against the euro following the Brexit vote.
Second most popular read was the merger of forensic accountancy firms Dow Schofield Watts, based in Warrington, and Bridge Houghton.
The combined practice, trading as DSW Bridge Houghton Forensic, will led by partners David Houghton, Michael Brian and Kate Beckett, is to operate from Schofield Watts group offices in Daresbury and Leeds.
Third best read turned out to be brewery Greater Manchester brewery JW Lees purchase of the Hanging Gate pub at Weaverham, Cheshire.
The outlet, which had been trading as Italian restaurant Casa Matta until it closed in September, was bought from an asking price of £650,000. The Hanging Gate is the pub’s original name.
Nice to see tradition being restored. Mine’s a pint.
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