The Co-operative Group plans to close the headquarters of Somerfield’s in Bristol, following its £1.57bn acquisition of the grocery chain last year.
The Bristol offices once employed over 1,000. This has now been reduced by 613. Most of the remaining 259 ex-Somerfield staff who are still working at the head office will have left by Christmas, although 60 will remain until June 2011 to support the handover of systems.
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