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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.2 - Processing and preserving of fish, crustaceans and molluscs
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 April 2018
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Supermarket chain Morrisons has announced plans to create 100 new jobs at the company's in-house fish processing plants in Grimsby. Fish processing for the retailer is housed at two sites in the town which currently employ around 500 staff. Morrisons is able to expand given growing customer demand for its products. As yet there is no further information about when the jobs will be filled.
Sources
2 April 2018: Grimsby Telegraph
5 April 2018: Foodmanufacture.co.uk
2 April 2018: Undercurrent News
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Morrisons, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 94006, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/94006.
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