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Article: Thank you to everyone for your support during our time of need: greetings from London.(New Deal Skates UK Ltd)
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- Thrasher
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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New Deal UK and Warrior Blaze Ahead
Britain's top skate distributors are unfazed by the fire which destroyed (see images below) their flagship warehouse HQ in London on the night of Thursday August 7th. The huge blaze was one of the biggest in London this year, according to the BBC, and probably in the warehouse next door. The New Deal and Warrior building, which only opened in October last year, was reduced to molten metal and rubble. Nobody was hurt in the fire, but all the stock in the building was lost, along with all office equipment and systems. The losses run into millions of dollars. Yet within hours of suffering this total loss, the company was up and ...