'Appalling' safety at Asda buyers' former company

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Packaging firm co-owned by Mohsin and Zuber Issa was prosecuted after a series of injuries

Two months after Mohsin and Zuber Issa resigned, in August 2015, another worker lost four fingers while cleaning a bubble wrap machine.HSE inspector Steven Boyd said: "These were life-changing injuries that could have been prevented. Sadly, in this case lessons from previous incidents had not been learned."

The company was criticised for not reporting the incident until nine months after it happened, delaying the investigation and putting other employees at risk, according to the HSE.Zuber and Mohsin Issa have won awards for their entrepreneurship, and were made CBEs in OctoberEuroplast is a highly profitable firm, earning £2.7m on a turnover of £9.6m in the year to 30 March 2020.

Their success with EG Group gave Mohsin and Zuber Issa the financial firepower to buy Asda from its previous owners, the US superstore group Walmart.

 

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The Issa brothers run a company with a €20billion turnover but make a pre-tax loss of €129mn taxdodgers own Asda now

Did they used to make cladding for high rise buildings?

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