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JD Sports could move up to 1,000 jobs to EU due to Brexit costs and 'red tape', boss says

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direct to your inboxThe executive chairman of JD Sports has warned that 1,000 distribution jobs could be moved to Europe from Rochdale as a result of the crippling cost of Brexit.The company currently ships from its Rochdale distribution centre on the Kingsway Business Park but has seen big backlogs with parcels and a significant amount of red tape, which has made the process more costly.Peter Cowgill, the chain's executive chairman, told the BBC's Radio 4 World at One programme: "The amount of red tape is very significant.

So it slows the whole process down and it is more costly."When we said we had a free trade arrangement - that's really not the case.

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