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A further 638 jobs have been lost as certain operations cease at the group’s facilities in Liverpool, Leeds and Cramlington.
Communisis has gone into administration with parts of the business immediately sold to a new owner, but more than half its workforce has been laid off.
Jobs will go at sites in Leeds, Liverpool and Northumberland, administrators say.
THE last of the stock belonging to the old Beales department store chain has been sold for £2,500, an update from administrators has revealed.