Article: Abattoir firm up for sale.

A FAMILY business which was officially re-opened by Princess Anne, in a fanfare of publicity just four months ago, is being marketed for sale.

R Y Henderson & Sons, founded in 1945 and one of Scotland's oldest meat processing family firms, is being sold as a going concern.

The company officially opened a multi-million pound, state-of-the-art abattoir at Myreside Farm, near Whitecross, in September ? the first of its kind in 25 years.

But rumours started doing the rounds in Linlithgow on Monday when some of the firm's boning plant operators were sent home.

When the Journal and Gazette was informed Henderson's had gone into receivership ...

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