Car auction jobs at risk

Up to 30 jobs are at risk after a car auction firm announced it was closing its Rotherham branch after 20 years in business.

The Manheim Remarketing car auctions business at Canklow Meadows industrial estate will hold its last auction on Friday.

The company has 24 branches around the country and a spokesman said that they would attempt to keep on as many staff as possible by moving them to other site.

The site at Rotherham traded around 30,000 vehicles a year, specialising in fleet and dealer vehicles.

Mike Pilkington, managing director for Manheim Remarketing, said: "With the lease expiring early next year, we have taken the decision to relocate all activities to our neighbouring Manheim Auctions locations."

“The vast majority of the main sales programme will be integrated into our auction facilities in Leeds, Mansfield and Knottingley, which are all within 30 miles distance.

“Whilst we have unfortunately had to put the staff at Rotherham at risk of redundancy, it is very much our intention to relocate as many of them as practically possible to other Manheim locations.”