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Multi-million losses for Maltese retail groups in year of COVID shut-down
Property and food sales in COVID kept business going, but retail groups suffered between 70-80% drops in sales
6 May 2021, 8:04am
by Matthew Vella
Millions were lost in sales by some of Malta’s largest companies and bond issuers, a raft of end-of-year financials posted in the last weeks show.
A selection of some of the more prolific organisations shows the varying fortunes of businesses who suffered the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic’s lockdown and public health restrictions. Others granted a ‘pass’ to proceed with their economic activity retained positives figures, with dampened sales but never straying away from a minor profit.
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has been a major shock globally, resulting in an unprecedented health crisis. The truth is that this pandemic has forced governments across the globe to introduce aggressive and severe emergency measures and restrictions in a robust attempt to contain the virus spread. As a result, the pandemic has been a particular threat to, the transport and aviation, hotel and catering industries, as well as the banking industry.
While Lombard Bank had a good start to 2020 with growth in line with expectations, the latest financial data available as at Q3-2020, as in the case of other local peers, indicates that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continued to negatively impact the bank’s revenue streams also during the third quarter of 2020.