Wine Cellar axes 320 jobs

More than 300 jobs have been axed after the off-licence company Wine Cellar went into administration.

The firm, which operated 170 stores in the North of England, has managed to sell 109 off-licences to EFB Retail saving 640 jobs, but 320 workers have been made redundant.

Sign up to our weekly round-up of HR news and guidance

Receive the Personnel Today Direct e-newsletter every Wednesday

Email(Required)

OptOut

From time to time, we will send you emails about selected products, events and services from Personnel Today - but you can choose to opt-out at any time. If you do not wish to receive these emails, please tick this box.

Name

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Δ

The deal with EFB Retail has also secured the jobs of a further 60 staff members at Wine Cellar’s head office.

Bill Dawson, partner in the reorganisation services practice at Deloitte which is running the administration, said: “Unfortunately about 320 employees have been made redundant. We will be working closely with the Redundancy Payments Office to provide support for these staff.”