24,000 jobs in danger as Peacocks and Jaeger owner faces collapse

EWM main government Steve Simpson explained: “Like each retailer, we have located the past seven months incredibly hard.

“This situation has grown worse in current months as we have experienced to offer with a series of wrong rumours about our payments and investing which have impacted our credit rating insurance coverage.

“Traditionally, EWM has always traded with robust income reserves and a conservative equilibrium sheet, but these tales, the reduction in credit rating insurance coverage, from the backdrop of the lockdown and now this second wave of Covid-19, and all the area lockdowns, have produced standard investing unachievable.

“As directors we have a responsibility to the organization, our staff members, our prospects and our creditors to discover the very greatest solution in this brutal natural environment.

“So we have utilized to courtroom nowadays for a small breathing area to evaluate our possibilities in advance of transferring to appoint directors.

“Through this approach I hope and feel we will be able to protected the greatest upcoming for our organizations, but there will inevitably be substantial cuts and closures as we perform our way via this.

“I would like to thank all our staff members for their awesome attempts all through this time and also our prospects who have remained so loyal and dedicated to our makes.”

The retail sector is one of the industries to undergo the most as a outcome of lockdowns to curb the unfold of coronavirus. Despite a increase in income right after limitations finished in June, suppliers have so far slashed thousands of work in bids to endure.