The maker of Crabbie’s Ginger Beer and Dead Man’s Fingers spiced rum shed more than 500 jobs and entered the red after its sales were hit by a cyber attack, it has been revealed.
Halewood Artisanal Spirts, whose brands also include Whitley Neill Gin, Liverpool Gin and Samuel Gelton’s Irish whiskey, has posted a turnover of £162.4m for the year to July 1, 2023, down from £371.4m. The business said that a cyber attack at the end of 2022 impacted it sales while its turnover also declined by it disposing of its South African and Russian operations. It added that the war in Ukraine has seen its supply chain costs, especially freight, “spiral to unprecedented magnitudes”.
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Source: MSN News