FTSE 100 LIVE: FTSE to open higher as Pizza Express cuts thousands of jobs | City & Business | Finance
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Britain’s FTSE will open higher this morning despite suffering a number of setbacks. PizzaExpress said it would cut another 1,300 jobs across its 370 UK restaurants as new coronavirus restrictions, especially in city centres, kept consumers from eating out. The losses come weeks after the firm said it would cut 1,100 jobs and close 73 restaurants. No further restaurants will close, it says, with this volley of losses split across the remaining sites.
“Our aim throughout these extremely challenging times has been to keep our team members and customers safe and to retain jobs for as long as possible,” Zoe Bowley, Pizza Express managing director said.
“Unfortunately, the recent increase in Covid-19 cases is again causing footfall to decline across the UK.”
This comes after the FTSE 100 closed down on Thursday amid the resurgence of coronavirus sweeping across the European continent.
On Wednesday in America the Dow lost 3.43 percent whilst the S&P saw 3.53 percent of its value shaved off. Japan’s Nikkei 225 performed better only falling by 0.26 percent. At the end of trading on Thursday the FTSE 100 closed down.
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