{"id":7153,"date":"2019-02-05T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/house-of-fraser-warehouse-to-close-in-wellingborough\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T18:30:22","slug":"house-of-fraser-warehouse-to-close-in-wellingborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/house-of-fraser-warehouse-to-close-in-wellingborough\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Fraser warehouse to close in Wellingborough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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About 300 jobs will be lost when a warehouse that supplies deliveries to House of Fraser stores and its customers closes.<\/p>\n

Workers have been told that the site in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, will shut on 10 April, a union has said.<\/p>\n

The Usdaw union said the announcement ended “months of uncertainty for staff, who are understandably upset by the proposed closure”.<\/p>\n

XPO Logistics, which operates the site, has not commented.<\/p>\n

The firm also closed another warehouse in Milton Keynes in November with the loss of more than 300 jobs, according to the GMB union which represents some workers there.<\/p>\n

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In August, it emerged more than 600 jobs were under threat as XPO was owed \u00a330.4m by the troubled shopping chain, according to its administrator.<\/p>\n

House of Fraser, which has more than 50 stores across the UK, was bought by Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct just hours after it went into administration.<\/p>\n

Dave Thom, Usdaw’s area organiser, said staff it represented in Wellingborough were “understandably upset”.<\/p>\n

“There were clearly doubts over the future of XPO’s involvement in House of Fraser, following its sale to Sports Direct,” he added.<\/p>\n

He said Usdaw was “entering into consultation talks with the company to secure the best possible deal for our members”.<\/p>\n

“We are also speaking to local employers, who recognise Usdaw, to see if they have employment opportunities for any XPO staff who lose their jobs.”<\/p>\n

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