8 July 2008 – Local media report that more than 200 staff at the Peter Hunt Bakery, in Kearsley, near Bolton, have lost their jobs as administrators failed to find a buyer for the plant.
There had been uncertainty as to the future of the bakery following parent company Lyndale Foods’ collapse last month. The Sale-based group, which specialised in the manufacturing and sale of various sweet and savoury bakery products, was put into administration in early June, as reported by FLEXNEWS at the time.
A management buyout secured the jobs of 230 workers at Lyndale Foods' Hampsons bakery in Bolton but a Sayers Liverpool plant and around 40 Hampsons stores closed with a combined loss of 450 jobs.
The Peter Hunt plant supplied various retailers with savoury pies and pastries.