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Dame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was "always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period". Belper
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Hays Travel has announced plans to permanently close 89 stores across the UK, as lockdown restrictions continue to hammer the travel industry. Saturday. Newtownards
Jonathon Woodall, chief operating officer, said: "Our first priority is to continue to look after our customers and we offer the highest standards of customer service through our retail, phone and online divisions. Crewkerne
The Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021. Hays Travel is to close 89 shops overall as part of a "planned consolidation of its UK retail estate". Westbourne
Hays Travel has announced plans to permanently close 89 stores across the UK, as lockdown restrictions continue to hammer the travel industry. Use the app to fully manage your travel card account and stay in control of your holiday finances. But the imposition of another lockdown and the suspension of flights and holidays by major providers that followed meant the company had to act to cut costs, it said. Lanark
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"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.". Tavistock
Hays said it is offering alternative work to 388 staff who will be affected by the closures. Sheerness
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Lives and livelihoods are being lost every day while Tory cronies line their pockets with government contracts. It is offering options for alternative work to 388 staff affected. Thousands of employees also faced the prospect of losing their jobs as 555 UK shops faced closure. Wollaton
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The travel company which bought Thomas Cook shops when it collapsed is sending 880 staff home due to the pandemic. Hays Travel is closing 89 shops as part of a planned consolidation of its UK retail estate. In August last year, the company cut 451 jobs out of a total workforce of 4,500 people due to a decline in sales. The highest official awards for UK businesses since being established by royal warrant in 1965. Workington
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He added that the firm was "continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes". Hays Travel, which has a head office in . Chapeltown
It has been difficult to recruit staff for the Brighton store and, although we have tried to make it work by diverting staff from other branches, its not been possible to keep it open permanently. Epping
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The North Street branch closed its doors for the final time over the weekend, just three months after it reopened under new ownership. Jarrow
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The company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected. Options for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops. Hays said it had "made every possible effort" to avoid job losses "during these extraordinary and distressing times". Hedon
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Founders John Hays and wife Irene were hailed heroes of the high street in 2019, after saving hundreds of Thomas Cook branches, which would have otherwise been wiped due to the collapse of the company. Affiliate links: If you take out a product This is Money may earn a commission. Hays Travel founder John Hays dies. Ossett
The travel agent said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered 'alternative work options' to minimise redundancies. Harrow
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Dame Irene Hays, owner and chair of Hays Travel, said: It was always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period we had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not. Aberdare Aberdeen Airdrie Aldridge Alexandria Alfreton Allerton Alloa Alnwick Altrincham Amesbury Andover Anlaby Annan Arbroath Arnold Ashbourne Ashby-de-la Zouch Ashford Ashington Ashton Ashton under Lyne Ashton Under Lyne Goring
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'We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.'. Travel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook. not be ATOL protected. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. Cowley
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Please contact your local branch before you visit as opening times to the public may vary. 10:00 - 16:00. 09.15 - 19.00. Chief operating officer Jonathon Woodall added that Hays would be 'ready for the bounce back when it comes'. Read more. Bangor Bloomfield Centre
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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Hays, who was 71, founded the business in 1980 as a travel agency in the back of his mother's clothes shop in Seaham, Durham, and grew Hays Travel into the largest independent travel agency in the country with close to 200 . Cramlington Craster Court
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It revealed that, since taking over the Thomas Cook stores, it had closed 14 shops seven in the UK so far this year. Cannon Park
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Jonathon Woodall, chief operating officer, said: "Our first priority is to continue to look after our customers and we offer the highest standards of customer service through our retail, phone and online divisions. A TRAVEL company which swooped in to save collapsing Thomas Cook stores has now closed a string of shops. Whitstable
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With coronavirus rampant and the usual January booking of summer holidays absent, the travel trade continues to suffer. Bitterne
Dozens of former Thomas Cook outlets, which were acquired in October 2019, will not reopen - with 388 jobs at risk. A Gannett Company. Rayleigh
Hays Travel has not renewed the leases, as part of "a planned consolidation of its UK retail estate. Tunbridge Wells
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