A group that operates some of the largest entertainment venues in the UK was forced to cut almost 1,000 jobs during the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been revealed.
SMG Europe Holdings, which trades under the ASM Global brand, employed 2,111 members of staff in 2019, a figure that reduced to 1,668 in 2020 and again to 1,120 in 2021.
The Manchester-headquartered group said it "had to made a number of redundancies to help arrest the ongoing level of cost in the business".
