U K
B U S I N E S S
P A R K
home page

The information below comes from the UK Activity Report.
Click here for further details

Youngs Bluecrest Youngs Bluecrest is to invest £15m at its seafood factories in Hull and Grimsby with the creation of 300 jobs, but about 260 jobs will be lost through the closure of its plant in Gosforth. 26-Feb-2004 Youngs Bluecrest Seafood has acquired Marr Foods, the Hull-based fish processing company with 400 staff. 14-Oct-2003 Youngs Bluecrest is recruiting a further 40 staff at its Scottish scampi processing plant in Annan, as part of a £2m investment at the site. 21-Aug-2002 Youngs Bluecrest is to close a fish factory in Kilkeel, County Down, with the loss of 150 jobs, in order to relocate the scampi processing operation to Scotland. 06-May-2002 Youngs Bluecrest, the Grimsby-based fish processing company, is to be sold by Legal & General Ventures to a management buy-out for £137m. 20-Mar-2002 Youngs Bluecrest, the fish processor, is expected to be put up for sale by Legal & General Ventures for £150m. 04-Sep-2001 Youngs Bluecrest is planning to recruit a further 100 workers at its Grimsby fish products factory over the next few months. 17-Jul-2001 Youngs Bluecrest has appointed Deutsche Bank to consider its future options, which could lead to the expansion of its fish products business or the sale of Legal & General Ventures' 79% stake. 09-Jul-2001 Youngs Bluecrest is to invest £5m in the upgrade of its fish processing factory at Marsden Road in Grimsby, but another factory in Hull will be closed with the loss of up to 176 jobs. 17-Feb-2000 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007