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Jobs to go as Midlands print centre closes

The printing arm of DMGT is set to close its print centre at Derby with the loss of around 30-40 jobs, it was confirmed today.

Harmsworth Printing Ltd has carried out a review of its existing print operations which also include its centres at Surrey Quays, Didcot and Stoke.

Now it is proposing to close the Derby plant which has recently been responsible for printing editions of the Daily Mail in the North and Midlands.

The Derby Telegraph newspaper, which used to be printed on the site, is not affected as it is now printed on Trinity Mirror presses in Birmingham alongside its Northcliffe Media stablemate the Nottingham Post.

A spokesman for DMGT said: “During a recent consultation process it was made clear to everybody that the company is continuing to review its printing operations.

“That review has regrettably concluded that the HPL Derby centre is at risk.”

The spokesman added that the company aims to meet elected representatives of affected staff in the coming weeks.

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  • January 4, 2012 at 3:27 pm
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    They have not mentioned that the people they are making redundant were informed at the end of November that their positions were safe, as they had already made 41 people redundant.
    Those original 41 people leave at the end of January and it looks like the rest of the staff will follow suit on the same date.
    It’s a bit poor that, whilst the original staff members have had a couple of months with pay to find alternative employment, the remaining staff may not be afforded this luxury.

    I mean after all, who looks for a new job when you have been told you are not at risk?

    I fear for the workforce at Stoke in the near future!!

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  • January 4, 2012 at 4:13 pm
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    Surely they can’t print EVERYTHING at Didcot? I know it’s big, but the roads are long…

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  • January 4, 2012 at 5:17 pm
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    The next chapter in the demise of NML opens!!
    Trinity must love this.
    I remember not so long ago the Northcliffe print operation was one of the largest and most profitable in the business – how things change!

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  • January 5, 2012 at 8:47 am
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    I worked for NML for 20 years, what a great,forward thinking progressive company it was then! How have things got this bad?

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  • January 5, 2012 at 9:32 am
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    Trinity Mirror don’t even need to acquire Northcliffe now, much easier and less hassle just to take the profit from printing.

    Very sad for all concerned

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  • January 5, 2012 at 11:11 am
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    Sad days indeed. Was at DET and helped install the press in the ‘new’ building. A bright future awaited. Now long gone. My commiserations to the workers.

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  • January 5, 2012 at 11:29 am
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    The rot set in duing the early 1990s when advertising juniors with no experience and editorial meglamiacs started getting the top jobs at Northcliffe regional level. If ever industrial suicide was committed, then this is a prime example.

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  • January 5, 2012 at 3:01 pm
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    Editorial megalomaniacs? Shurely shome mishtake? Would they were still there.
    The advertising juniors – the jumped-up cheerleaders – are still there but the “editorial megalomaniacs” have been so thoroughly replaced by bean counters that your average Northcliffe paper is now no better editorially than an advertising freesheet.

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  • January 6, 2012 at 4:31 pm
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    Once a great company to work for, unfortunately some bad business decisions were made in building the white elephant that is Didcot, not that all the closures would have been stopped, but some first class print centres quite capable of producing newspapers have been sacrificed

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  • January 13, 2012 at 5:25 pm
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    i work at the det hpl derby i have enjoyed working for the company it is so sad that all newspaper companys are going though a very bad time.once these are skilled jobs and once they have gone the have gone forever.i fear for stoke in the next few months .but all of my thoughts go out to every single member of the hpl derby team these are very good workers and are friends like a family and it is upsetting to see you loose some of your workmates and friends can trinty mirror buy the site so we could get our jobs back?

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