Fears that scores of supermarket suppliers will go bust next year have led the country's major chains to draw up emergency plans to replace them, is working on 'worst-case scenarios' across the board - combing its supplier base and examining alternatives to them. The need for alternative supply lines has been brought into focus by the collapse of Woolworths and its distribution arm, EUK, which supplied the supermarkets as well as Zavvi, the former Virgin Megastores, with CDs. However, cracks have been showing in other areas, with milk processor Dairy Farmers of Britain in the midst of a restructuring that will see two dairies close and up to 640 jobs lost.
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