Morrisons splits with banana supplier
The Bradford-based supermarket exercised its right to take over the entire joint venture in September, folding the business into its produce supply operations. Directors from Global Pacific left the firm shortly afterwards, according to recent Companies House records.
The venture, which posted revenues of £7.4m for the year to February and turned a small profit, is based in an old Del Monte factory in Boston, Lincolnshire.
Morrisons uses the site to cool its imported bananas, enabling customers to buy slightly green fruit to ripen at home.
It is a small part of the supermarket’s wide array of abattoirs, bakeries and food processing plants designed to cut out middlemen from its supply chain, lowering costs.
Source: telegraph.co.uk
