Seafood firm’s staff told jobs are at risk
MORE than 500 former employees of Cumbrian Seafoods have been told all their jobs are at risk following a takeover of the remains of their business by Young’s Seafood.
Cumbrian Seafoods went into administration on December 5 and Lion Capital, parent of Young’s, bought its contracts and equipment. Yesterday, a statement on behalf of Young’s said: “It is clear from the fact that Cumbrian Seafoods went into administration that the business model for the Cumbrian sites was not financially viable.”
The statement said Young’s had been looking at the sites and talking to the staff still working on at them – 363 at Seaham, Co. Durham; 112 at Whitehaven, Cumbria; and 80 at Amble, Northumberland. It had been proposed that all their work could be transferred to existing Young’s Seafood sites. But a Young’s spokesman said: “We are still talking about options.”