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Job losses in milk shake-up

25th August 1994, Page 11
25th August 1994
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Page 11, 25th August 1994 — Job losses in milk shake-up
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Keywords : Milk, Dairy Crest

• About 350 drivers at Dairy Products Transport are among the first job casualties under the reorganisation of milk collection and distribution in England and Wales.

Eight depots will dose at the Dairy Crest subsidiary six sites expect to handle much lower volumes from the Milk Marketing Board's successor, Milk Marque. Smaller operabrs which have missed out also face a bleak future.

And Wincanion Transport's managing director of the VVincanton division, Keith House, says redueri volumes through its depots are likely. The Winconbn division, which lost five collection depots in the first wave of allooations in June, last week picked up Preston depot and nine other locations. 'We can make no firm decisions about this or the five depots we have lost until volumes are known and tenders for other business from the other milk collectors are allocated," says House 'We will know more in a few weeks."

Dairy Crest, which said 23 of its depots in advance of the first phased tendering, found cray nine Dairy Products Transport depots were on the Milk Marque list of successful contractors for the remaining business announced last week. 'We understand that there will onY be wa+ for our depots for the nest 12 months," says DC. "I-lowever, Milk Marque has also reorganised its milk field (collections and distribution areas) and this is an important factor in our jdo losses which will take effect from November."

MM Kly5 there may well be depot closures but this is a result of contract allocation and riot milk field reorganisation. It says ihe process of reorganising milk fields is incomplete: the final ouicornewill be known in a week's time

by Steve McQueen


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