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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Food, Beverages And Tobacco In Specialised Stores 47.2 - Retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco in specialised stores
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 May 2018
Employment effect (start)
14 May 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
Heron Foods, a retail chain specialised in convenience, frozen and chilled foods, has announced that it will recruit 500 staff as it plans to open 30 shops in England and Wales by the end of 2018. The HR manager of Heron Foods said that the new jobs range from management roles to senior and part-time sales assistants.
Heron Foods traditionally operated in the north of England but it is currently expanding across England and Wales. It has 3,800 employees working in its 255 shops and its support centre in Melton, Yorkshire.
In August 2017 the company was taken over by B&M European Value Retail, which also owns the discount retail chain B&M operating in the UK and Jawoll, a chain of discount shops in Germany.
Sources
14 May 2018: Talking Retail
15 May 2018: Convenience Store
11 May 2018: Hull Daily Mail
30 May 2018: Talking Retail
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Heron Foods, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 94191, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/94191.
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