Manufacturing is to cease at renowned pottery firm Denby (Image: Getty) Manufacturing is to cease at renowned pottery firm Denby, and a further 49 workers have been made redundant, administrators have said. The decision means more than 100 jobs have now been lost at the historic company, which has been in business since 1809. Denby Pottery appointed administrators on March 31 after struggling with rising energy and labour costs and weaker consumer spending. Administrators from FRP Advisory said it had “not been possible to secure a buyer for the manufacturing operations” and that a “difficult decision to close the business’s making and design departments” had been made. READ MORE: Supermaket with 300 stores on brink of administration – merger ‘only chance’ READ MORE: UK haulage company collapses into liquidation Denby Pottery appointed administrators on March 31 (Image: Getty) Around 80 workers were laid off earlier this month, according to the BBC. The additional 49 redundancies take the total number of job losses to well over 100. Tony Wright, joint administrator of the Denby Group and …