{"id":5035,"date":"2018-12-03T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/beleaguered-crawshaws-meat-retailer-stores-sold-in-deal\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T11:34:56","slug":"beleaguered-crawshaws-meat-retailer-stores-sold-in-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/beleaguered-crawshaws-meat-retailer-stores-sold-in-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Beleaguered Crawshaws meat retailer stores sold in deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Crawshaws shop\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/182D7\/production\/_104113099_crawshaws.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"700\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Crawshaws, which has outlets across the north of England and the midlands, has been sold in a \u00a31.4m deal<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A struggling meat retailer business has been sold to a an entrepreneur for \u00a31.4m, saving 240 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Crawshaws had more than 50 stores in the Midlands and north of England.<\/p>\n<p>In October the firm said it did not have &#8220;sufficient cash resources&#8221; and closed 35 stores along with a distribution centre shedding 350 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Now the remaining 19 stores and a South Yorkshire production centre have been sold to Loughanure which is controlled by businessman Tom Cribbin.<\/p>\n<p>Through Cribbin Family Butchers, Mr Cribbin previously operated a chain of butchers stores in the Republic of Ireland and sold Gabbotts Farm to Crawshaw in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The collapse of Crawshaws came after several years of financial losses.<\/p>\n<p>According to its latest set of results for the six months to 29 July, the group posted revenue of \u00a321.6m and a pre-tax loss of \u00a31.7m.<\/p>\n<p>Following the sale, administrators EY are set to assess how the proceeds of the sale are to be divided between creditors.<\/p>\n<p>Shares in AIM-listed (junior stock market) Crawshaws remain suspended and its stock will be cancelled following the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Yorkshire business opened in 1954.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-46426611\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption Crawshaws, which has outlets across the north of England and the midlands, has been sold in a \u00a31.4m deal A struggling meat retailer business has been sold to a an entrepreneur for \u00a31.4m, saving 240 jobs. Crawshaws had more than 50 stores in the Midlands and north of England. In October the firm &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}