{"id":23186,"date":"2026-02-19T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23186"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:56:12","slug":"meat-supplier-donald-russell-considers-closure-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23186","title":{"rendered":"Meat supplier Donald Russell considers closure \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Donald-Russell-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189828 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1106\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Donald-Russell-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189828 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Donald-Russell-3.png 1106w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Donald-Russell-3-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Donald-Russell-3-1024x687.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Donald-Russell-3-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Donald-Russell-3-600x403.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1106px) 100vw, 1106px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Donald Russell\u2019s plant in Aberdeenshire faces closure<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">An Aberdeenshire butcher with a Royal Warrant has put 120 jobs at risk after calling in advisers to consider its financial position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Donald Russell in Inverurie is a supplier of premium meat products to restaurants and other businesses. It also operates a direct-to-consumer service through an online platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The company, established in 1974, has entered a 45-day collective redundancy consultation exercise \u201cto explore all alternatives\u201d including closure and selling the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Interim chief executive Matthew Flood stated: \u201cDonald Russell has been a respected Aberdeenshire business for more than 50 years, but the company has faced mounting challenges in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cUnprecedented volatility in meat prices, unpredictable energy costs and the rising costs of doing business have created a perfect storm. That has left the business unable to continue trading in its current form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He admitted the company is  \u201cplanning realistically for closure and our absolute priority is to support our colleagues through this difficult period with transparency, dignity and all the assistance we can provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Donald Russell closed its cold storage distribution centre in Kintore last August, with about 70 people losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Meat #supplier #Donald #Russell #considers #closure #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Russell\u2019s plant in Aber&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[266,8954,9036,265,10321,13659,3086,13660,1943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}