The former site and machinery of historic pie maker Vale of Mowbray has been sold to two businesses, five months after firm collapsed with the loss of 200 jobs.
Administrators of the closed food firm, which had operated since 1928, said Dutch warehousing and cold chain logistics firm NewCold had purchased the Leeming Bar site where 200 people had worked before it went into administration last October. Meanwhile rival Compleat Foods, the makers of Classic Pork Pies and Melton Mowbray Pies, has bought the plant and machinery, some of which had been part of a £4m investment made as recently as 2021, to start production of scotch eggs.
The £24m turnover North Yorkshire business had supplied large retailers and some local independents until it ran into difficulties in the face of rising raw materials and energy costs, as well as problems recruiting caused by Brexit's curtailing of available labour from EU countries. Administrators at FRP said there had been attempts to attract new investment, and there had been an offer made for the business which included new funding to support a turnaround but that was later withdrawn.
