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.

HeadlineDateLocationOutcome

McBride confirm Barrow factory closure at a cost of 106 jobs

 22/02/20 Barrow 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