Photo by Max Efrein. The Prescott areas sole Hastings is closing along with the companys 122 other brick and mortar locations throughout the country. No firm closure date has been released. PRESCOTT – The fate of Hastings has been determined. The company has been purchased by a joint venture that will…
DetailsThe federal government was warned as early as 2012 that unscrupulous providers were rorting the vocational education loans scheme and that there were no safeguards to protect against the abuse of vulnerable students, blowing the scheme out from $325 million to $3 billion in less than three years. It was not until 2015 that the…
DetailsThe fast food industry can be a brutal business. When it is wrapped around a franchise system, it can be even more so. The latest to feel the pain is one of the country’s biggest pizza chains, Eagle Boys, which plunged into administration a week ago, throwing its franchise network into panic. Over the past…
DetailsA former England and Wycombe Wanderers footballer who turned to armed robbery after racking up gambling debts from a habit he picked up in the top flight has been jailed for 15 years. Nathan Ashton, 29, who played premiership football for Fulham before starting a career in the lower divisions targeted betting shops across the…
DetailsFinancial watchdogs described the nations fiscal debt as alarming and warned structural problems must be addressed as it unveiled the state of Italy’s tax agencies. The IMF published a report this week titled Italy: Enhancing Governance and Effectiveness of the Fiscal Agencies, as part of the Funds Capacity Development function, which aims to help countries…
DetailsGet access to the best calls on Wall Street with StreetInsider.com’s Ratings Insider Elite. Get your Free Trial here. Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX) announced today that it is implementing a strategic restructuring under which Yield10 Bioscience will become its core business with a focus on developing disruptive technologies for step-change improvements in crop yield to…
DetailsMost migrant sex workers are satisfied with their working conditions in Australia, but some feel isolated and are working off debts incurred to travel here, research has revealed. The Australian Institute of Criminology and the Scarlet Alliance surveyed 594 sex workers, 412 of whom were migrants. Photo: Janie Barrett Despite growing fears about human trafficking, the largest…
DetailsIntroduction Pre-bankruptcy composition agreement in business continuity Pre-bankruptcy composition agreements in liquidation Third-party initiatives Additional changes Introduction By a decree of January 28 2015 the minister of justice set up the Rordorf Commission, a ministerial commission to develop and submit draft legislation designed to reform, review and reorganise the rules governing insolvency procedures in Italy…
DetailsA cabinet reshuffle designed to give Peter Gutwein more time to concentrate on his Local Government portfolio shows the Tasmanian government isnt mucking around when it comes to reform of the sector. Mr Gutweins strongly worded speech to representatives of the states 29 councils at the Local Government Association of Tasmania conference on Wednesday sent…
DetailsComments (2) A PORT Talbot engineering company with strong links to the steel industry has closed, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs in the area. Fairwood Fabrications has announced it will cease trading after going into liquidation. The company has been involved in the steel industry for more than 35 years. The company had supplied…
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