{"id":80935,"date":"2026-11-05T04:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/poundlands-us-owner-says-retailer-remains-vulnerable-after-talks-with-ministers\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T04:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:55:03","slug":"poundlands-us-owner-says-retailer-remains-vulnerable-after-talks-with-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/poundlands-us-owner-says-retailer-remains-vulnerable-after-talks-with-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Poundland\u2019s US owner says retailer remains \u2018vulnerable\u2019, after talks with ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brothers still in \u2018active discussions\u2019 with interested parties and seeking to \u2018protect as many jobs as possible\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The US owner of Poundland has said the high street chain remains \u201cchallenged and vulnerable\u201d after holding talks with ministers amid government criticism of its handling of the retailer.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Brothers said in a statement on Thursday morning that it was still in \u201cactive discussions\u201d with interested suitors and had been seeking to \u201cprotect as many jobs as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/nov\/05\/poundland-gordon-brothers-us-vulnerable-talks-ministers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Brothers still in \u2018active discussions\u2019 with interested parties and seeking to \u2018protect as many jobs as possible\u2019 The US owner of Poundland has said the high street chain remains \u201cchallenged and vulnerable\u201d after holding talks with ministers amid government criticism of its handling of the retailer. Gordon Brothers said in a statement on Thursday &#8230; <a title=\"Poundland\u2019s US owner says retailer remains \u2018vulnerable\u2019, after talks with ministers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/poundlands-us-owner-says-retailer-remains-vulnerable-after-talks-with-ministers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Poundland\u2019s US owner says retailer remains \u2018vulnerable\u2019, after talks with ministers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}