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Hazlewood Foods Hazlewood Foods is creating about 100 jobs at its sandwich factory in Worksop, taking the workforce to over 2,000. 29-Oct-2003 Hazlewood Foods is to shed up to 20 jobs at its sandwich factory in Worksop by the end of the year. 04-Nov-2002 Hazlewood Foods is investing £13m at its ready meals factory in Warrington, and a further £6m will be invested at its Wisbech site to double capacity and create 200 jobs. 15-Jul-2002 Hazlewood Foods is planning to shed up to 100 jobs at its bakery in Hull. 18-Jan-2002 Hazlewood Foods is recruiting 300 staff to work at its new £13m chilled pizza factory at the Deeside industrial park, but 379 jobs will be lost through the closure of its Bedford plant. 05-Oct-2001 Hazlewood Foods is to shed about 120 of the 177 jobs at its pickles and sauces factory in Manchester. 28-Aug-2001 Hazlewood Foods has sold FH Lee, the manufacturer of paper products for supermarkets, to Kruger of Canada. 19-Feb-2001 Hazlewood Foods is to shed 80 jobs at a pizza factory in Bedford early next year, due to the introduction of new automation. 15-Dec-2000 Hazlewood Foods has agreed to a £258m takeover offer from Greencore of Ireland, and Greencore expects to raise £120m from disposals and to achieve £7m of cost savings from combining the businesses. 13-Nov-2000 Hazlewood Foods is to start production at a new £15m sandwich factory in Worksop later this month, and it will employ 1,500 staff when fully operational next March. 08-Nov-2000 Hazlewood Foods is to open a 230,000 sq ft bakery in Hull early next year, in order to supply major retailers across Europe. 30-Oct-2000 Hazlewood Foods, the sandwiches and ready meals group, is considering a number of takeover approaches, including offers backed by Schroder Ventures and Legal & General Ventures. 26-Oct-2000 Hazlewood Foods is planning to close or sell a significant number of its 40 sites, as part of an ongoing restructuring programme that has already resulted in the disposal of 17 sites. 14-Jun-2000 Hazlewood Foods is to relocate its sandwich factory and offices in Worksop to a new £20m purpose-built facility in October, with the creation of 300 jobs. 05-Jun-2000 Hazlewood Foods is to combine its three Beaverlac cake factories in Hull into a new £15m purpose-built factory on Sutton Fields industrial estate next year, with the creation of up to 200 jobs. 20-Jan-2000 Hazlewood Foods is to open a new sandwich factory in Worksop and a new bakery in Hull. 06-Dec-1999 Hazlewood Foods is closing its pre-packed cooked meat factories in Basildon and Milton Keynes with the loss of 457 jobs, due to falling demand and rising imports. 28-Sep-1999 Hazlewood Foods has opened a £4m chilled sauces factory in Bristol for its R&B Foods division, while its previous factory will be refurbished to test new products. 15-Sep-1999 Hazlewood Foods is cutting 80 jobs at its factory in Wrexham. 20-Apr-1999 Hazlewood Foods is closing its sliced cooked meats factory at Wisbech with the loss of about 250 jobs, as part of a strategy to move out of lower-margin products. 16-Feb-1999 Hazlewood Foods is to focus its Warrington and Bristol factories on producing a new range of chilled ready meals for two supermarket groups, and some low-margin products will be dropped. 02-Dec-1998 F Duerr & Sons has acquired Samuel Moore Foods, the jams and preserves company, from Hazlewood Foods. 08-Aug-1998 Hazlewood Foods has acquired Breadwinner, the London sandwich maker, for £14m. 24-Jan-1998 Hazlewood Foods has acquired R&B Group, the ready meals business, for about £7.4m. 14-Aug-1997 Hazlewood Foods has sold its Dutch potato products subsidiary to Danisco of Denmark for £45m, and plans to switch its focus away from commodity products and towards convenience foods. 18-Jun-1997 The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. Click here for further details Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2009