Booker jobs go poultry arm next?

16 February 1999

Booker jobs go — poultry arm next?

BOOKER is cutting more than 600 jobs following the closure of its Northampton, Hatfield, Haydock and Bristol operations.

The job cuts and closures occur as the company continues to make efforts to find buyers for its fish-farming and poultry divisions.

The job cuts arise from the sale by Booker of the goodwill and some assets of Booker Wholesale Foods to Palmer & Harvey McLane, a privately owned distribution company, for £4.4 million.

• Booker plans further sell-off, FWi, yesterday (15 January, 1999)
• Booker to shed 200 at division head office, FWi, 07 January, 1999
• The Times 16/02/99 page 25, page 28 (Tempus)
  
• The Independent 16/02/99 page 15
  
• Financial Times 16/02/99 page 18 (Lex), page 20
  
• The Guardian 16/02/99 page 18
  
• The Daily Telegraph 16/02/99 page 27
  
• The Herald 16/02/99 page 22