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.
Scotland; Eastern Scotland; Clackmannanshire and Fife
Location of affected unit(s)
Buckie
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10 - Manufacture of food products
330 jobs Number of planned job losses
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 April 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The closure of the Grampian Country Foods factory in Buckie is to result in 330 workers losing their jobs. However at the same time the company indicated that a £16 million redevelopment of its site at Broxburn near Edinburgh, will create 200 jobs. Its expansion in Broxburn will increase the workforce to 1,060 and increase production of bacon, sausages, haggis and other pork products. The company intends to relocate the pork processing operations at Buckie, Morayshire, and part of the sausage manufacturing operations at Elmswell in Suffolk to Broxburn.
Sources
15 April 2005: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Grampian Country Food Group, Relocation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61428, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61428.
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