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Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale 47.11 - Non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 March 2014
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Supermarket chain Asda has announced that it is to cut 200 jobs. 150 jobs will be lost at the head office in Leeds and 50 at the Lutterworth offices of its George fashion business.
The redundancies are designed to remove duplication in the business and to make efficiency savings to enable more effective competition.
Sources
25 March 2014: Retail Week
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Asda, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 76773, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/76773.