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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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City Staff

FTSE 100 Live: Fresh retail blow as Joules heads into administration

Struggling retailer Joules today revealed it is to go into administration after failing to secure additional financing.

Shares in the Leicestershire-based company, which was set up in 1989, have been suspended ahead of the expected appointment of Interpath Advisory as administrators.

The plight of Joules comes at the start of a huge week for the UK economy, with unemployment and inflation figures on Tuesday and Wednesday before chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement on Thursday.

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