The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing (10 - 11) Manufacture of food and beverage 10 - Manufacture of food products 10 - Manufacture of food products
450 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
9 October 2012
Employment effect (start)
9 October 2012
Foreseen end date
30 November 2012
Description
Paramount Foods has gone into administration and will make 118 staff redundant following the loss of a major contract with a supermarket chain.
Administrators are looking for a buyer while the redundancies were made in order to sustain the business in the short term. 76 jobs will go in Deeside and another 42 in Salford.
UPDATE 23.11.2012: The administrators were not able to find a buyer for the business and the company will cease production at Deeside on 30 November making a total of 450 people redundant. Production at Salford will stop on 28 November.
Sources
23 November 2012: BBC News
9 October 2012: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Paramount Foods, Bankruptcy in United Kingdom, factsheet number 74318, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/74318.
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