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Sound Control, a firm that retails musical instruments, has announced that it has closed 10 retail outlets across the UK with the loss of 163 jobs. The firm entered administration earlier in 2008. It operates 26 outlets in the UK, employs 338 and has an annual turnover of 50 million GDP. The job losses were implemented from May 1st 2008. The decision to close the retail outlets and make the redundancies were made by Deloitte, the administrator of the firm.
Sources
1 May 2008: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Sound Control, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 66586, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/66586.