Analysis - Doorstep delivery of a Uniq deal

Jenna Towler dissects Uniq's deficit for equity swap deal

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Jenna Towler looks at how a pioneering deficit for equity swap prevented the 21,000-member Uniq Pension Scheme falling into the Pension Protection Fund

Chilled food manufacturer Uniq, which undertook a pioneering deficit for equity swap earlier this year, has not always been a small business attached to a massive pension fund deficit. Uniq – as...

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