Specialist ingredients and unique trademarks of the Vale of Mowbray pork pie company are being put up for sale in the latest move by administrators to raise as much money as possible from the site.
Auctioneers Sanderson Weatherall, who are holding a sale of manufacturing machinery from the factory next week, have also invited bids for the registered trademarks and seasoning ingredient specifications for the company's renowned pies.
The firm is asking for expressions of interest by 4pm on Friday, November 25. It comes after an online sale of the contents of the factory at Leeming Bar, including pie and scotch egg making machinery, was announced last week by the auctioneers with a viewing day at the site on December 7.
It is being done on the instructions of the administrators FRP, who were brought in when the company ran into financial trouble.
The sale of the machinery, along with tradenames and the mysteries of the many ingredients used by the company, effectively confirms the end of the Vale of Mowbray in Leeming Bar, where it was established as a pork pie factory in the 1920s.
The trademarks up for sale are Vale of Mowbray; The Pork Pie People and The Pie People. Seasoning specifications up for sale include: Haggis inc Salt; Caramelised Onion Sausage with Red Onions; Roast Pork with Rubbed Rosemary; Beef Sausage; Mango Flavoured Pie Jelly and Dalesman Hold the Hog Vegan Pie Mix.
More than 200 people have lost their jobs at the site, which closed at the end of September - 171 workers were made redundant at the time when the administrators were called in, with 50 kept on to oversee the winding down of the factory.
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