AAH loses another contract
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by Juliet Parish • AAH Holdings will make 26 drivers redundant and close its Yeadon depot next month when it loses another major contract it acquired along with assets from collapsed North-East haulier Barnfather.
The Lincoln-based operator has lost the 1:22m contract with soft drinks manufacturer G Barraclough to Mendlesham, Suffolk-based Taylor Barnard. It was shortlisted with Wakefield-based Eleco Distribution Services for the fiveyear UK contract,
Taylor Barnard begins daily deliveries of up to 100 loads of 22 pallets for Barraclough to supermarket regional distribution centres in April. Arid it will carry 40-80 loads from Barraclough's 13radford factory to Taylor Barnard's newly acquired 18,600m2 warehouse at Leeds.
It will recruit 50 staff to run the operation and says it will consider appointing some of the 50 staff made redundant by the closure of AAH's depot.
Taylor Barnard hauls for Princes Foods, of which Barraclough is a subsidiary. But
Ban-aclough denies that choosing Taylor Barnard over six other hauliers who tendered is a part of group policy to cut suppliers.
Onward Transport won the Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages contract from .4.2-kH, which initially acquired the work when it bought some of Barnfather's assets (CM 10-16 Dec 1992).
I— Hauliers owed millions of pounds from the Barnfather crash are being summoned by the liquidator to the annual creditors' meeting later this month. It starts at 11:00hrs on 18 February at Ernst & Young's Leeds office.