Archives: Business Watch

The list below includes businesses that have confirmed their post-Brexit status. The list does not include businesses that are yet to confirm closures or jobs losses. It does also highlight business that the UK has lost to the EU due to the Brexit decision.

Headline Date Location Outcome

De La Rue 250-260 job losses

17/06/20 Gateshead Job Cuts

McBride confirm Barrow factory closure at a cost of 106 jobs

22/02/20 Barrow Closed

Kasai car plant to close with loss of 180 jobs

21/02/20 Merthyr Tydfil Closed

Japanese legal giant Nishimura & Asahi confirms it shunned London over Brexit

12/02/20 London Lost Business

Digital bank N26 to close all accounts and pull out of UK because of Brexit

11/02/20 UK Closed

JLR, Unilever and Typhoo: Devastating job losses prove Brexit has done nothing to stop uncertainty

11/02/20 Liverpool Job Cuts

Brexit Job Loss Index: 436,296 Jobs Lost As Of 31 January 2020

10/02/20 UK Job Cuts

Anger as API Foils, Livingston’s second-oldest factory, shuts with no warning on Brexit Day

1/02/20 Livingston Closed

Philips Avent plant up for sale as business relocates to Netherlands with 400+ jobs losts

31/01/20 Glemsford Closed

Village Kitchen Closes Due to Brexit

28/01/20 Birmingham Closed

The Wool Shop Closes

28/01/20 Newport Pagnell Closed

Jaguar Land Rover to cut 500 jobs at its Halewood plant

22/01/20 Liverpool Job Cuts

Oil company Total moves Finance department back to Paris with 70 jobs lost

14/01/20 London Job Cuts

Swift Caravans confirms redundancies and closes one of its factories

8/01/20 Hull Job Cuts

Tesla Gigafactory Europe to be built in Germany, not UK, as Elon Musk blames Brexit uncertainty

14/11/19 UK Lost Business

Axminster Carpets insists Brexit is to blame for imminent job losses

12/09/19 Axminster Job Cuts

Scottish island chocolate maker blames Brexit for collapse of business

11/09/19 Isle of Skye Closed

170 Jobs axed at passport printers as contract moves to Poland

26/06/19 Gateshead Job Cuts

Key EU medicines regulator closes London office with loss of 900 jobs

26/01/19 London Closed