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Poundland Managing Director Barry Williams thanks the staff following a “really good meeting” with MPs. Poundland remains hours away from administration - with 600 shops and 11,000 jobs at stake. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Look, all I can say is we've had a really good hearing in there with the committee.
00:04I have to say I was really impressed with their level of knowledge of the situation.
00:09We were able to share some more detail. We left them with some facts.
00:13Sean and I have now got to go and hold a board meeting to make some decisions based upon our
00:17next step.
00:17What's your message to staff, Barry?
00:20Well, the message to staff is thank you.
00:22Our colleagues have done an amazing job getting the business to where it is.
00:25Sean and I are here fighting on their behalf.
00:27We think we're fighting on behalf of the retail industry right now.
00:30It's his timeline going into administration tomorrow.
00:32We're going to go and have a board meeting now to have those conversations.

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