A HEALTH supplement firm has announced it still plans to leave Hull, despite urges from MPs and unions to stay.
Historic Hull firm Seven Seas announced earlier this year that it plans to move its commercial operations to London.
About 250 people could lose their jobs if the company goes ahead with the plan.
Yesterday, the firm issued a statement confirming it still planned to press ahead with the move.
Managing director John Redman said: "We are making this announcement now because staff have made it very clear that they want clarity on the future of the business before the Christmas holidays.
"The consultation process to date has been thorough and we have been listening carefully to what all groups of staff have been telling us.
"However, nothing has been put forward which changes the company's view that outsourcing manufacturing and relocating commercial operations offer the best chance of future success for Seven Seas."
The first phases of the consultation process with staff are now concluding.
Seven Seas will now move ahead with the second stage of consultation on its plans for what it is calling a "phased shut-down" of the Hull site over the next two or three years.
The latest announcement comes just two weeks after MPs wrote a letter to the Mail saying the firm's withdrawal from the region would be "the wrong decision at the wrong time".
For more on this story, see tomorrow's Mail.
Historic Hull firm Seven Seas announced earlier this year that it plans to move its commercial operations to London.
About 250 people could lose their jobs if the company goes ahead with the plan.
Yesterday, the firm issued a statement confirming it still planned to press ahead with the move.
Managing director John Redman said: "We are making this announcement now because staff have made it very clear that they want clarity on the future of the business before the Christmas holidays.
"The consultation process to date has been thorough and we have been listening carefully to what all groups of staff have been telling us.
"However, nothing has been put forward which changes the company's view that outsourcing manufacturing and relocating commercial operations offer the best chance of future success for Seven Seas."
The first phases of the consultation process with staff are now concluding.
Seven Seas will now move ahead with the second stage of consultation on its plans for what it is calling a "phased shut-down" of the Hull site over the next two or three years.
The latest announcement comes just two weeks after MPs wrote a letter to the Mail saying the firm's withdrawal from the region would be "the wrong decision at the wrong time".
For more on this story, see tomorrow's Mail.
