Company files bankruptcy, reveals more massive layoffs

Week that started with a new CEO ends with bankruptcy.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:10 p.m. May 23, 2020
  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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ESTERO — After several last-ditch efforts to avoid it — and five days after installing a new CEO — Hertz Global Holdings filed for bankruptcy May 23.

 

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