AWD cuts hit 'rock bottom'
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• AWL) has completed its job-cutting programme with 150 compulsory redundancies. This brings the total number of jobs lost since May to 220.
Managing director Mike Sanderson says the cuts were necessary to rationalise the "bureaucratic ways inherited from General Motors", but promises that the current workforce of 750 is the "rock bottom base — it'll go up from here".
AWL) is also trying to sell off more than half of its huge prime-site Dunstable factory but is being foiled at present by the slump in commercial property prices.
LI AWL) Bedford has signed a .21m export order for 67 10tonne TJ vehicles and parts to go to Kenya and Botswana. The trucks will be shipped out in kits and assembled in Africa. LI AWD's Northampton dealer Blucars has gone into receivership after 20 years of trading, and 40 people have been made redundant. Owner John Botterill blames high interest rates and the banks' loss of confidence.