TIMELINE: A HISTORY OF PARTNERSHIP 2004: Stobart Group begins relationship
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with Tesco October 2006: Stobart launches rail freight service Daventry-Grangemouth for the supermarket giant July 2007: Tesco axes 400 jobs at Fenny Lock site and closes the trunking operation there
August 2007: Stobart wins the transport contract from Tesco's new Goole, Fast Yorks DC February 2008: Tesco proposes to transfer the transport operation at its Middlewich, Cheshire DC to Stobart; 250 staff are affected Jan 2009: Stobart launches Grangemouth-Inver ness rail service for the supermarket July 2009: Stobart wins the contract to run Tesco's new Tees port import centre February 2010: Tesco announces transfer of transport and warehouse operations at Middleton DC to Stobart and closure of site within four months; operations to transfer to Stobart site in Widnes. March 2010: Tesco announces closure of Middlewich DC September 2010: Stobart's Irish operation wins Tesco work in Eire
that it proposes to outsource the transport operations at its Fenny Lock DC to the Stobart Group.
"This could result in the TUPE transfer to Stobart of up to 151 Tesco staff who work in the transport section at Fenny Lock. We have just started talks with Tesco and we will be examining its business case for the move in detail."