Eighty-one East Mids jobs axed as butcher enters administration

Some 81 jobs have been lost across the East Midlands after butcher Crawshaw went into administration.

Administrators from EY have axed jobs in Chesterfield, Derby, Gainsborough, Leicester and Leicester factory shop, Loughborough, Mansfield, Retford and Worksop.

Hunter Kelly, joint administrator, said: “Crawshaw has not been immune to the well documented issues on the high street, which has resulted in a number of stores becoming loss making. Despite the new management team’s best efforts, it was not possible to raise additional investment to restructure the business by reducing the number of high street stores and expanding its successful factory shop format and instore SPAR butchery offering. As a result the Group would have run out of cash due to the loss making high street stores and therefore Administration was necessary. Crawshaw’s out of town factory store format has proved to be successful and we are hopeful that a purchaser can be found who can take forward management’s plan for these profitable stores.”

“We are continuing to trade 19 profitable stores and the Hellaby processing and distribution centre as normal and would encourage interested parties to come forward. Unfortunately it was necessary to immediately close 35 stores in mainly high street locations that were no longer viable, which resulted in 354 redundancies.”