UK ASOS Resumption Of Operating Profit After Fire Is Expected To Be Further Lowered

< p > reporters learned that the northern warehouse of England href=, "a href=" http:// "www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp", the largest online fashion retailer Asos, was hit by a big fire last Friday, causing its company to be forced to stop selling online, and its share price was also affected.

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< p > it is reported that the fire occurred on Friday night, and the operation of the website was not completed until 23 days after the completion of the cleaning process.

For Asos, this year is a bad year. Two times in 3 months, performance expectations have been cut down. According to the data in June 5th, the market value of Asos has evaporated 2 billion dollars.

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< p > analyst Clive Black said: "the fire is likely to cause doubts to shareholders. Investors hope this is just a short business interruption."

It is understood that in this fire, 20% of the stocks placed in the Barnsley warehouse were destroyed.

Asos said that Barnsley's inventory accounted for 70% of Asos's inventory, totaling about 531 million pounds.

Police believe that the fire is arson, and a criminal investigation has been launched.

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< p > this is the second time in less than 10 years that Asos encountered second times because of the fire and had to suspend a href= "http:// www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > website operation < /a >. In December 2005, due to the explosion of oil depot in southeastern England, the Asos then suspended the order business, and moved the warehouse from the original site to Barnsley in 2011.

Analyst Jamie Merriman said Asos quickly recovered from the 2005 blaze, and we hope it will happen again.

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< p > > a href= "http:// www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > Asos < /a > said: "we have suspended the ASOS website because of a fire in the early morning of the Saturday in the capital of the capital.

Fortunately, no one was hurt, and we expect to be able to return to normal in the next day or so.

The fire is believed to have spread from the two floor to the third and four floors.

Of the ten fire engines, three came from the West Yorkshire fire brigade overnight.

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< p > Barnsley warehouse is the main distributing center of the company.

It is dispersed in the US, China and Australia, but most of the orders are fulfilled through the Barnsley warehouse.

In a statement, the company indicated that there was no new order at present, and that its existing orders had not yet been shipped and the delivery time would be delayed.

It is understood that the warehouse contains more than 100 thousand boxes of packaging products.

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< p > warehouse is the place where materials are stored centrally. Once there is a fire, the economic losses will be huge, the social aspects will be greatly affected and the consequences will be serious.

High temperature and dry summer are also the high season for warehouse fires. Therefore, it is of great significance to do well the fire safety work of warehouses, ensure the safety of storage materials and reduce fire hazards.

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