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William and his younger brother Edmund (later Sir Edmund) established the Vestey empire in 1897 from a family butchery business in Liverpool.They were pioneers of refrigeration, opening a cold store in London in 1895 and developing stores across the UK, and then throughout Russia, the Baltic nations, and Western Europe.
The October 2008 United Kingdom cold wave was a spell of unseasonable weather that affected the United Kingdom during the final week of October 2008. The event set new low October temperature records across areas in England, Scotland, and Wales and brought the first recorded October snowfall to some areas of the country in more than 70 years.
Company Date Administrators Branch Closures Job Losses Further Information Source Outcome Principles: 02/03/2009 Deloitte [1]: BBC News [2]: Viyella: 07/01/2009
2 October – Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair announces his resignation with effect from 1 December 2008, citing a lack of support from new Mayor of London Boris Johnson. 3 October – Peter Mandelson returns to the Westminster cabinet as Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform as part of a reshuffle ...
October 9, 2008: Kaupthing Bank E: Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority ING Direct United Kingdom: Commercial bank € 1.14 × 10 ^ 9 [35] [36] October 9, 2008: Bankwest (subsidiary of HBOS) Commonwealth Bank: Bank £ 1.2 × 10 ^ 9 [37] October 13, 2008: Sovereign Bank, Wyomissing, Pennsylvania: Banco Santander: Bank $ 1.9 × 10 ^ 9 [38 ...
In October 2021, Quantum introduced ActiveScale Cold Storage as a storage-as-a-service (STaaS) offering. [76] It combines the company's tape technology with the ActiveScale object storage platform. [ 76 ] [ 7 ] It is also used to store, migrate, and restore objects to and from the cold archives.
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