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Warburtons Warburtons is to open a new 15,000 sq ft bakery depot at Howden in East Yorkshire in July, with the transfer of 42 jobs from its site in Gilberdyke. 05-Mar-2008 Warburtons is creating an initial 30 jobs at its new bakery distribution centre at the Heathfield Industrial Estate in Newton Abbot. 04-Jul-2006 Warburtons is to create up to 140 jobs at its new £10m bakery, which is due to open at the former Rathbones site in Rogerstone, South Wales, in July. 07-Nov-2005 Warburtons is to employ 100 workers at a bakery in Stockton when it becomes fully operational in December, following a £6.5m investment at the site. 27-Sep-2005 Warburtons is seeking permission to refurbish its recently-acquired bakery in Stockton, before bringing it back into production. 25-Apr-2005 Warburtons is planning to spend a further £250m expanding its bakery operations across the country over the next five years, with a particular emphasis on the south and south west. 21-Feb-2005 Warburtons has acquired the Rathbones bakery site in Stockton for undisclosed terms, and will spend the next nine months refurbishing the plant. 17-Jan-2005 Warburtons has confirmed plans to build a £60m bakery in Wakefield by June 2005, with the creation of 200 jobs. 16-Aug-2004 Warburtons has awarded a £2m contract to Hargreaves Contracting to refurbish its bakery at Wednesbury. 22-Jul-2004 Warburtons is to shed 40 of the 399 jobs at its bakery in Wednesbury following a recent fire, and work will start on rebuilding the site over the next few weeks. 20-Jan-2004 Inter Link Foods is to acquire Soreen, the Manchester-based malt loaf manufacturer, from Warburtons for £8.4m. 23-Jan-2003 Warburtons is to open a 130,000 sq ft bakery in Enfield, with the creation of about 300 jobs. 19-Sep-2002 Warburtons is to invest £1m at its Newcastle-upon-Tyne bakery this year, including new equipment, new delivery vehicles and more training for the 300 staff. 17-Jan-2002 Warburtons is to create a further 100 jobs later this year at its new £30m bread-making centre in Wednesbury. 18-Jun-2001 Warburtons is investing a further £0.9m in new equipment for its Eastwood bakery in Nottinghamshire, including an automated ingredient feeder system and an extra bagging machine. 11-Jun-2001 Warburtons, the bakery group, is selling its retail and pie manufacturing businesses to Lyndale Foods, a management buy-in, for undisclosed terms. 14-May-1996 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2008