I worked for Fairfield Footwear back in the 80s.
They employed maybe 400-500 people across the Rochdale site and Richmond in North Yorkshire.
They were struggling and brought in management consultants, who unbelievably decided to buy the company and demonstrate their skills in turning it round.
I think it was December 88 they put in an initial £100k and then completed the transaction around March with a final £500k.
It lasted 6 months.
https://www.altberg.co.uk/the-altber...d-shoe-factory
I found this article. Mike who seems to have put the piece together ran the Richmond factory at the time.
It would have closed anyway as almost all the others have done.
