Currently reading: Start-up Arrival warns it could lay off 800 staff to fund van project

British firm currently employs 2600, with 30% at risk “in response to the challenging economic environment”

UK electric van start-up Arrival has warned it might have to lay off almost 800 employees as part of a cash-saving exercise to enable it to fulfil its plan to start production in autumn this year.

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