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Main UK butcher closes down manufacturing facility eternally – in enterprise since 1974

The model has been acquired by a Shropshire-based butcher.

(file image) Donald Russell has been acquired by one other firm (Picture: Getty)

A premium Scottish butcher has closed one in all its factories following a take over – which has resulted within the lack of 90 jobs, it has been reported. Donald Russell’s Inverurie facility on in Harlaw Street in Aberdeenshire has closed after the model was acquired by DukesHill, an artisan butcher primarily based in Shropshire.

Initially, the 90 remaining employees had been stored on beneath Switch of Undertakings (Safety of Employment); nonetheless, following a session course of, the long-established manufacturing facility web site has shut for good. Final month, 30 workers had been made redundant as chiefs struggled to discover a purchaser. The Press and Journal studies that the choice takes the full variety of job losses to 120.

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Donald Russell’s Inverurie facility has closed (Picture: Google Maps)

In a press release DukesHill stated they had been “unable to keep away from additional redundancies”.

A DukesHill spokeswoman stated: “Previous to the acquisition, Donald Russell Ltd had introduced plans to stop buying and selling and shut the Inverurie web site, with related job losses.

“We acquired the direct-to-consumer model and belongings of the enterprise and carried out a switch of the remaining workers beneath TUPE rules.

“The Inverurie web site was not a part of the transaction. Sadly, we had been unable to keep away from additional redundancies, having concluded a 30-day collective redundancy session.”

Final 12 months the web butcher closed its chilly storage distribution centre in Kintore, leading to about 70 jobs losses.

For over 50 years Donald Russell has been supplying eating places and inns around the globe with premium meats. Based in 1974 the model is legendary for his or her ‘huge 4’ steaks which embrace fillet, sirloin, ribeye, and rump.

New chief govt Mark Gallagher stated: “We’ve at all times admired Donald Russell and share many similarities; the identical ardour for creating the best high quality meals, a perception that nice meals begins with accountable and moral farming, and a give attention to delivering distinctive customer support.

“Our precedence now’s on restoring Donald Russell operations, welcoming again its great clients & suppliers, and investing within the long-term way forward for the Donald Russell model.”

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