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Ted Baker founder Ray Kelvin resigns amid 'forced hugging' row
The founder and chief executive of fashion chain Ted Baker, Ray Kelvin, has resigned monitoring allegations of misconduct, including "forced hugging".
Mr Kelvin had been on a voluntary leave of absence since December last year following the misconduct allegations.
These, which Mr Kelvin denies, are being investigated by the company.
In a declaration, Mr Kelvin said the company had been his "life and soul" but "the right thing to do is to step away from Ted".
He said the past few months had been "deeply distressing" but he would sustain the team wherever he could offer "helpful advice".
Mr Kelvin, who owns 35% of the company, will not receive any severance pay, and any bonus payments he has earned for the past three years' performance will lapse.
In December, employees launched an online petition accusing him of inappropriate comments and behaviour.
The petition, on the workplace website Organise, said that more than Ted Baker staff were finally breaking their silence after at least "50 recorded incidents
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Today the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the immigrant movement and the gay communities possess lost a friend. Our friend and a fantastic American hero, Sen. Ted Kennedy, has left us, but he has left us with the greatest legislation of our moment that has helped shift us closer to the promise of America.
Like so many of my generation, my life is packed of memories of the Kennedy brothers, John, Bobby and Teddy. When I think about these brothers, I cannot help but return to that daytime 46 years ago when I stood with my mother in the parking lot across from the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, as President Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy came out to the crowd anxiously awaiting to see them. When we left the parking lot that morning—my mother, to catch her bus so that she could earn to her job as a domestic worker, and me, to my spelling class at I.M. Terrell Jr. High School—we would have never dreamed that, by the time my mother would be halfway through her domestic duties of that day and me through three class periods, President Kennedy would be assassinated in Dallas. On that day, for my mother and our family,
Where did it all travel wrong for Ted Baker? Proudly British brand once beloved by celebrities and royals failed to hold up with new trends and was blighted by harassment allegations which forced out its founder - as it's set to close all UK stores
Once a fashionable and desirable brand, Ted Baker is establish to close its remaining 31 UK stores this week, with people at risk of losing their jobs.
It comes after the firm behind Ted Baker's UK shops, No Average Designer Label (NODL), fell into administration in Parade, with administrators closing 15 shops and cutting jobs.
According to the Wall Road Journal, the decision to shutter the remaining shops was triggered after the Original Brand Group - which acquired Ted Baker in - stopped paying its suppliers.
After opening in Glasgow in , Ted Baker enjoyed some considerable successes, including picking up impressive public figure endorsements including Amal Clooney, Holly Willoughby, and Emma Stone. The Princess of Wales famously wore a navy Ted Baker trench during the then-Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's Canada tour in July
So what went wrong? According to UK fashion veteran Rochelle White, a number of factors contributed to the once-
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