Warburtons invests £100m in Yorkshire bakery acquisition and group upgrades
Bolton-based family-owned bakery group, Warburtons, has struck a deal to acquire a Yorkshire site from supermarket group Morrisons, making it the group’s 13th production location.
Warburtons is acquiring the former Rathbones bakery in Wakefield from Bradford-based Morrisons, which had announced its planned closure, with the loss of 115 jobs, in January this year.
The deal is part of a £100m investment by Warburtons, alongside a makeover of its gluten-free site at Newburn, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a new distribution centre in... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
