luxury brand: The luxury brand announced the ambitious plan in 2015 but has now confirmed that the 4-hectare 10-acre site in Leeds is to be sold off after several years of stalling in the wake of the Brexit vote, according to The Independent. The scheme was the brainchild of Burberry's last chief executive, Christopher Bailey. The site had been the centrepiece of a vaunted 50m investment in its British manufacturing base. The proposed factory would have enabled the company to produce the coats and the gabardine cloth they are made from under one roof. Burberry planned to use the new facility to triple its UK production run of 5,000 coats a week and create 200 additional jobs. At present, they are made by an 800-strong workforce at two separate sites in Castleford and Keighley.
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