Jobs to be axed at Beatties
More jobs are being axed at Black Country stores group Beatties as part of a raft of redundancies announced this afternoon by owner House of Fraser.More jobs are being axed at Black Country stores group Beatties as part of a raft of redundancies announced this afternoon by owner House of Fraser. A total of 180 jobs are to go across the whole House of Fraser Group, with "less than 10" due be lost at Beatties flagship store in Wolverhampton, and less than five at the Dudley operation. Employees were told of the cuts today. They come just a year after House of Fraser revealed nearly 100 jobs were to go at the Beatties head office in Wolverhampton, those coming just months after some 70 managerial and sales positions were chopped. Read the full story in the Express & Star
A total of 180 jobs are to go across the whole House of Fraser Group, with "less than 10" due be lost at Beatties flagship store in Wolverhampton, and less than five at the Dudley operation.
Employees were told of the cuts today. They come just a year after House of Fraser revealed nearly 100 jobs were to go at the Beatties head office in Wolverhampton, those coming just months after some 70 managerial and sales positions were chopped.The jobs cuts announced today - less than 30 across the whole of the Beatties stores group - are believed to affect staff working in support and back office roles.
They are being made as uncertainty still surrounds the future of the Beatties name, which is still under review by House of Fraser bosses.
Beatties has been trading in the region for almost 130 years, and has 12 stores.
