Scotland’s second largest private company, Grampian Country Foods , revealed that it turned loss into profit for the financial year to May 2001, with financial results reaching £15.3m (US$22.45m) from last year’s £3.8m loss after the firm cut 540 jobs at Marshall’s chicken processing plant.
Scotland’s second largest private company, Grampian Country Foods, revealed that it turned loss into profit for the financial year to May 2001, with financial results reaching £15.3m (US$22.45m) from last year’s £3.8m loss after the firm cut 540 jobs at Marshall’s chicken processing plant.
The Aberdeen-based supermarket meat supplier posted a 7% increase in full year turnover of £851m, and pre-exceptional and pre-tax profits almost quadrupled.
Company chairman and majority shareholder Fred Duncan saw his salary leap from £243,000 to £1m.
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