Administrators were appointed at the end of March, who started a process to try to find a buyer for the business.<\/a><\/p>\nTony Wright, joint administrator of the Denby Group and partner at FRP, said: “This is another very difficult day for the skilled workers at Denby and we understand how devastating this news will be for those affected and their families. <\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, despite extensive efforts, we have been unable to find a buyer for the manufacturing operations and have had to take this difficult decision.<\/p>\n
“We remain in discussions with interested parties regarding other parts of the business and continue to do everything we can to support affected employees through this process.”<\/p>\n
Denby Pottery was established in 1809 near Ripley in Derbyshire. The company announced on Tuesday 31 March that it had gone into formal administration.<\/p>\n
After 217 years, the firm said it had entered \u201cchallenging times\u201d and \u201cenormous financial challenges\u201d with reduced spending from customers, higher employment costs and surging energy prices.<\/p>\n
A Government spokesperson said: “Denby Pottery is an historic British institution which has been a point of pride for over two centuries.<\/p>\n
“We know this is an extremely difficult time and will work with Denby to understand the implications for their workers and the local area.”<\/p>\n
Reporting History sees journalists join News At Ten anchor Tom Bradby<\/a> to revisit their remarkable on-the-day reports of the defining events of the modern age. Listen to the episodes below…<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All manufacturing is to stop at pottery firm Denby and a further 49 workers have been made redundant.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-547868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}