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Hughes and Hughes

  • 04-05-2010 6:19pm
    #1
    branie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭


    It's opening again on thursday


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  • #2
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Source?

    Is it liquidation sale or a take over? :confused:


  • #3
    Snow Leopard
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭Snow Leopard


    Great...was wondering what the situation was when I passed it the other day. Will it still operate as H&H's?


  • #4
    angelfire9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭angelfire9


    SOURCE????
    Is this for definite?
    Is it a one day event or permanent re-opening

    Info PLEASE
    I miss H&H desperately


  • #5
    finbarrk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,481 ✭✭✭finbarrk


    Hope it is cos i have a €50 voucher card for it.


  • #6
    Balagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,168 ✭✭✭Balagan


    It's back with much the same staff who say it's back to stay. Receipts say 'Sivota Ltd., t/a Hughes and Hughes. A selection of books, mostly recent novels, reduced by 50%


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  • #7
    ktc1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭ktc1


    finbarrk wrote: »
    Hope it is cos i have a €50 voucher card for it.

    It's a different company so they won't accept the voucher. The original Hughes and Hughes is in liquidation. You can send your voucher to the liquidator but I reckon you'll only get a couple of cents in the euro if even that.


  • #8
    ollaetta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭ollaetta


    Very good news to hear it's open again.


  • #9
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    ollaetta wrote: »
    Very good news to hear it's open again.
    Thats good news.


  • #10
    Greenacres
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Greenacres


    ktc1 wrote: »
    It's a different company so they won't accept the voucher. The original Hughes and Hughes is in liquidation. You can send your voucher to the liquidator but I reckon you'll only get a couple of cents in the euro if even that.


    My mother was in on the day they reopened and asked about H&H vouchers. They said they plan to accept them but haven't sorted it out yet. She was told to call back in a few weeks. They do plan to though. I think it would a very important gesture of goodwill for them to do so. I don't know what sort of financial deal they will do with the liquidators, but there must be something in the pipe.


  • #11
    finbarrk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,481 ✭✭✭finbarrk


    There's hope yet for my voucher so!


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  • #12
    ktc1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭ktc1


    I really hope you're right and I'm wrong. My birthday was in February and I got vouchers from my wife, mother and brother, plus I still have credit from Christmas, over €100 in total I'd say. Even if they were to offer 50% of the value I'd be delighted.
    The issue as I see it is that the money paid for those vouchers went to the company that is in liquidation so it's effectively gone. If the new company were to honour them they would not be getting any cash in return, so they may offer a % for goodwill purposes and to drum up a bit of cashflow. I assume they did a good deal with the liquidator for the remaining stock when they took over the shop so they should be able to discount and still have positive cash flow. Here's hoping !


  • #13
    Parenthood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭Parenthood


    Great! It just felt like such a waste...all those books just abandoned on their shelves. I really like the Ennis bookstore, but a bit of variety doesn't hurt and H&H does have the coffee shop closeby.


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