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Administrators for collapsed building firm Rok have announced 711 jobs are being axed.
The bulk of the losses – 558 – will be in the maintenance and improvements business.
It is not yet clear how this will affect the Rok Liverpool operation which employs around 100 people.
Administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said a further 82 redundancies are being made in the construction division, 69 in the Scotland Plumbing Heating and Electrical business and two in its Exeter head office.
PwC, which was appointed on Monday, said it was slimming down the maintenance and improvements division across the UK because there was not enough work.
But it said it had already received more than 100 expressions of interest for the loss-making business.
Administrator Mike Jervis said: “There are still national contractors interested in all divisions, as well as parties interested in individual divisions. We are short-listing bidders.”
