Kwik Fit staff to be relocated

Since the completion of the acquisition of Kwik Fit on June 30, the Itochu management team has conducted a review of the company and decided that all the functions of the Kwik Fit offices in Broxburn, St Albans and Edinburgh, with the exception of the IT department, should be relocated to Letchworth in Hertfordshire.

Here it is proposed that they will be integrated with those of Itochu’s other UK automotive businesses, Stapletons and North Eastern Tyres, into one central head office.

As a result, the company has entered into a consultation period with the relevant employees based at Kwik Fit’s offices in Broxburn, St Albans and Edinburgh. The consultation process affects 125 employees (around 2.3% of total workforce) and is expected to last approximately 120 days.

This consultation process does not affect Kwik Fit’s 5,000-strong workforce based at its centres across the UK and centre operations will continue as usual.