CPC test changes JDG sheds jobs in survival bid
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• The John Dee Group, which has been in receivership since 3 January (CM 10-16 January), has made more than a quarter of its workforce redundant in a bid to sell its 10 subsidiaries as going concerns. But it says that all contracts are still being serviced.
The 220 redundancies include administrative, warehouse and driving jobs among the 800 employees spread throughout the UK. According to John Munroe, spokesman for receiver Cork Gully, 240 sales brochures have been sent to enquirers: "The phone has been red hot," he adds.
Cork Gully says that none of John Dee's customers have taken their business elsewhere apart from Electrolux — and that arrangement was made prior to the group's collapse.
The group continues to operate from three divisions.
The northern division consists of five companies in County Durham and John Dee Scotland in Airdrie. The central divison comprises John Dee Yorkshire, John Dee Midlands and John Dee North Western.
From a base in Dunstable the southern division controls John Dee Southern and the John Dee Group depot based it Moreton Valance in Gloucester.
So far, the only group asset to be sold is the company aeroplane. Cork Gully is taking enquiries at the Ferryhill, County Durham headquarters; telephone (0740) 651991.