The former owners of Bernard Matthews have been criticised for rejecting a takeover deal which would have stopped its defined benefit (DB) scheme from entering the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).
Rutland Partners, who sold the company to Boparan Private Office (BPO) for £87.5m in September last year, rejected a full takeover offer, which would have seen BPO take on the full liabilities of t...
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