Due to continuing difficult trading conditions in the industry, the company proposes to 
concentrate the majority of its activities in Yorkshire Premier at its second plant in South Kirkby.
If the proposal goes ahead, it is possible that closure would take place in mid-February.
The Sheffield operation in Aston Street has been owned by the ANM Group since 1993 with the South Kirkby plant opened four years later. Yorkshire Premier specially prepares meat for the ready meals market.
In the event of closure, a modest tonnage carried out at Sheffield will be transferred to South Kirkby while the remaining raw material supplied to Sheffield by the ANM Group-owned Scotch Premier Meat will be processed instead at the SPM site in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.
ANM Group said it deeply regretted the closure proposal but pointed out that the level of losses being experienced at Sheffield are considered unsustainable in the current economic climate with no indication of trading patterns improving in the near future.
However, Yorkshire Premier will now engage with affected staff to consider whether and to what extent redundancies may be avoided.
Last month, ANM Group CEO Alan Craig said there had been unprecedented movements in industry margins and warned “the business would have to cut its cloth” to suit the current and impending market conditions.
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