A TOP beauty brand stocked in Boots has shut its UK factory putting hundreds of people out of work.
The factory in Nottinghamshire where the products for the high street chemist were made will finally be decommissioned.
Operations by BCM Ltd in the Boots D10 Factory will come to a close this autumn[/caption]
The company had been making the popular No 7 cosmetic range at the Nottinghamshire site[/caption]
The French company Fareva, which makes a number of products for the Beeston-based Boots, closed its factory at the headquarters on Thane Road last year.
It closed in the summer of last year and Fareva has been making staff redundant and removing equipment since then.
New documents filed at Companies House though now show that the Fareva subsidiary BCM Ltd has confirmed that the lengthy decommissioning of the site will be done and dusted this autumn.
The financial filing said: “The company’s product testing service (analytical services), research and development, commercial and procurement activities will continue to operate out of the Nottingham site.”
Production of popular products like No7 and Soltan was moved from the D10 building on Boots’ site to Welsh and French factories, following a consultation which was launched in June 2023.
This changed meant the original 800-strong workforce was slashed by hundreds of jobs.
The closure of what had been known as Boots Contract Manufacturing (BCM), which had been bought by Fareva from Boots’ previous owner based in the US, Walgreens Boots Alliance, in 2017, meant the end of Boots manufacturing in Nottinghamshire since the company started.
John Boot founded the company in 1849.
Workers were employed by a sister firm, BCM Employment & Management Services Ltd, with both Fareva subsidiaries owned by the French entrepreneur Bernard Fraisse.
The filed financial accounts show the average number of staff employed by this management arm was 559 in 2023, which fell to 310 in 2024.
While the number of manufacturing workers fell from 399 to 119, the number of admin staff grew from 96 to 152.
In the documents filed to Companies House, the firm’s bosses said: “The final redundancies linked to the cessation of production in BCM Limited are due to take place in the first half of 2025.”
Previously, BCM Ltd said its parent company Fareva expected to fork out £6.2million in costs due to the planned job losses and another £1.9m to transfer assets to other associated companies.
The French pharmaceutical firm was also expected to pay £1.8m so Boots’ D10 building could be returned to the condition it was in before the company’s lease.
Products for Boots, Nottinghamshire’s largest company, were made on the ground floor for more than 90 years, the Nottingham Post reports.
Boots said last year it would review how the empty space inside the Grade I building could be used in the future.
It was built in 1932 under instructions from Jesse Boot which was designed to be a model factory fit for the modern age.
The special Grade I status protects its “exceptional” architectural and historic value.
The Sun Online has contacted Fareva for comment.
The Soltan brand was also being produced at the factory (stock image)[/caption]
