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The UK operator of TGI Fridays has gone into administration because the hospitality agency scrambles to promote its chain of 87 eating places throughout the nation.
Hostmore, which owns TGI on this nation, mentioned it had appointed directors from Teneo after plans to purchase the US restaurant chain collapsed earlier this month.
The corporate is within the means of making an attempt to promote the UK eating places to new house owners, which it hopes to finish by the top of September.
This is able to maintain the TGI Fridays model alive on British excessive streets, though it’s not clear at this stage whether or not some or all the eating places are prone to discover a purchaser.
it mentioned earlier this month that it was not anticipating to ‘recuperate any significant worth’ from the sale of websites, which means it could earn much less from the sale than it owes to collectors and banks.
TGI Fridays has 87 eating places throughout the UK, having been based in New York in 1965
TGI opened its first UK restaurant in Birmingham in 1986, then one other in London one 12 months later
Hostmore, which owns TGI on this nation, mentioned it had appointed directors from Teneo after plans to purchase the US restaurant chain collapsed earlier this month
The American-inspired restaurant chain continues to remain open as regular whereas the administration course of begins.
The collapse of the London-listed hospitality enterprise comes after plans to purchase the US restaurant chain for £177 million fell via earlier this month.
It could have merged with US-based TGI Fridays Inc, to create a bigger agency that might stay listed in London.
However the takeover plans had been dropped after a administration change which might have meant it couldn’t accumulate royalties from the TGI Fridays model.
Hostmore shares tanked by greater than 90% after the information earlier in September, as shareholders took the brunt. Its shares at the moment are price lower than 0.2 pence per share.
Its shares have now been suspended from the London Inventory Change and the general public firm will probably be delisted and wound up.
TGI Fridays’ greatest market is within the US the place there are 128 eating places, together with franchised websites, and it operates greater than 270 in international locations around the globe.
The UK operator of TGI Fridays has gone into administration because the hospitality agency scrambles to promote its chain of 87 eating places
TGI’s proprietor mentioned gross sales to date this 12 months are 12 per cent decrease than the identical interval final 12 months
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