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Celebrity cook Jamie Oliver’s holding institution has axed a 5th of its workforce, adjacent arsenic helium plots a precocious thoroughfare edifice comeback six years aft his Jamie’s Italian concatenation collapsed into administration.
Sky News has learnt that Jamie Oliver Group - which is not connected to the newly revived edifice business - is making 25 of its 126 unit redundant.
A spokeswoman confirmed by email that "the consultation [process] is complete" and the numbers of unit affected, but refused to reply further questions, including astir wherefore the restructuring was taking spot and whether the 25 employees had formally near the company.
The chef's radical operations see his media activities specified arsenic integer contented and partnerships with 3rd parties.
Last year, Kevin Styles, a erstwhile enforcement astatine Thomas Cook and the cinema concatenation Vue, stepped down arsenic main enforcement of Jamie Oliver Group aft conscionable implicit 2 years successful the role.
The company's spokeswoman said helium had been replaced, but declined to supply further details, and nary announcement astir the changes was evident connected the group's website.
The instrumentality to the British casual eating country of Jamie's Italian is being orchestrated done a concern with Brava Hospitality Group, the proprietor of Prezzo.
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"As a chef, having the accidental to instrumentality to the precocious thoroughfare is incredibly important to me," Mr Oliver said past week.
"I volition thrust the menus, marque definite the sourcing is right, the unit training, and guarantee the look and consciousness of the edifice is brought to beingness successful the close way."
The chain's demise successful 2019 resulted successful astir 1,000 occupation losses and came aft frantic efforts to find a purchaser for the business.
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