Scottish farmer-owned co-operative ANM Group has announced plans to sell its Scotch Premier Meat and Yorkshire Premier Meat businesses following a strategic review of its operations. In a statement yesterday (19 July), the company said ...
Tags: meat processing, Premier Meat, Meat, Meat businesses
In a ballot today (December 7) by the union Unite, around 1,200 workers voted to stage three days of 24-hour strikes in a protest over pay, working conditions and a culture of alleged bullying. Andrew Hanson, head of ...
Vion Food UK has announced it could be forced to close its loss-making pork processing plant in West Lothian, Scotland, putting nearly 1,700 jobs at risk. According to the company, the Hall's of Broxburn continued to record unsustainable ...
Dutch food company Vion has announced its plans to sell UK businesses, which employ 13,000 people in 38 facilities across the country. The company noted that this move is a part of its strategy to focus on core markets in Netherlands and ...
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Vion Food UK is set to close its loss-making Hall's of Broxburn pork processing plant in West Lothian, Scotland, a move which will lead to a loss of 1,700 jobs. Vion Food, which rejected two offers for the site, stated that neither of the ...
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Potential buyers of Vion Food's pork processing plant in UK are being evaluated and talks are ongoing with the owners, according to Scottish government's finance secretary John Swinney. The second meeting of the Hall's of Broxburn ...
Tags: pork processing plant, the struggling food firm, significant investments
Britain's food industry was rocked by two announcements over the past month.Premier Foods broke the news that it was to close bakeries in Birmingham and Greenford,west London and restructure its distribution operations with the loss of 900 ...
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A management buyout is the"most likely"result of Vion's dramatic exit from the UK's meat processing market,according to City analysts. Investec Securities analyst Nicola Mallard told FoodManufacture.co.uk:"A management buyout is the most ...
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A management buyout is the"most likely"result of Vion's dramatic exit from the UK's meat processing market,according to City analysts. Investec Securities analyst Nicola Mallard told FoodManufacture.co.uk:"A management buyout is the most ...
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The death knell has rung for pizza manufacturer Paramount Foods,which will close its site in North Wales with the loss of a further 278 jobs. Paramount Foods is to close its site in North Wales with the loss of 279 jobs Staff will work ...
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This week Premier Foods announced plans to axe 900 jobs and to close two bakeries, while Dutch meat group Vion revealed the sale of its UK food businesses - raising doubts about the future of 13,000 employees. Here, we capture a flavour of ...
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This week Premier Foods announced plans to axe 900 jobs and to close two bakeries,while Dutch meat group Vion revealed the sale of its UK food businesses?raising doubts about the future of 13,000 employees.Here,we capture a flavour of the ...
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Dutch food giant Vion's plans to sell its UK food businesses throwing into doubt the future of its 13,000 UK employees was"almost an inevitability,"according to leading City analysts. Julian Wild,food group director at legal firm ...
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Uncertainty surrounds the future of 13,000 food manufacturing jobs today(November 19),as Dutch food manufacturing giant Vion announced plans to sell its UK food businesses to concentrate on what it describes as"core markets"in the ...
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The minister for employment,Mark Hoban,is meeting the food manufacturing industry's top players today(November 12)–including Mars,Cranswick and Associated British Foods(ABF)–to offer them cash incentives for employing young ...
Tags: ABF, cash incentive, youth unemployment, Mars