date:Aug 01, 2012
The sale includes 22 of Peters Bakery's stores and the transfer of 129 staff. It also includes the company's 50,000ft2factory and headquarters in Durham, where an additional 69 staff will transfer.
Coopland, a bakery chain based in Scarborough, UK, has also acquired Peters' retail van business, which sells baked goods to businesses, and ten more staff will transfer from this unit.
However, 34 bakery stores will be closed, which will result in 149 redundancies. In addition, four staff in the dist