Wickliffe Ltd printers will move its production facility to the Kaikorai Valley premises of Tamahine Knitwear in July.
Tamahine last month announced the loss of 50 jobs and its imminent closure.
The future of Wickliffe's extensive, industrially-zoned Clyde St site, owned by the Dunedin City Council, is uncertain.
The council's general manager of finance and corporate support, Athol Stevens, said the University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic were contacted about three months ago, to see if either was interested in the site.
"There have been some preliminary chats, but it has not been defined what the site could be used for," Mr Stevens said.
In August last year, Wickliffe chief executive Ewan Soper denied that a council rent increase, during the last right-of-renewal term, had prompted the reduction of the operations.
He noted an option to build a new $12 million facility for Wickliffe was not viable.
The council's property manager at the time said both the University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic had been contacted about potential future uses for the Clyde St site, with options ranging from selling it to redevelopment.
Mr Stephens said the site was not for sale on the open market at present and it was too early for any redevelopment or joint-venture proposals to be considered.
In March last year, 59-year-old Wickliffe reduced by more than half its Dunedin production staff, eventually cutting 48 jobs from a total 70, because of increasing work generated from an earlier business acquisition in Auckland.
Wickliffe general manager of sales and marketing, Steve Silvey, confirmed the company would relocate its Clyde St production staff and printing equipment to Kaikorai Valley, while the remaining 35 of the total 75 staff would continue to work from Wickliffe's distribution centre in Mosgiel.
"With the lease expiring, and changes in staffing, the Tamahine premises is the right size for us," Mr Silvey said.
Mr Silvey expected the move of Wickliffe equipment and machinery from Clyde St would begin about mid-July and be completed by the end of that month.
In April 2006 Wickliffe had 346 staff in Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland and northern jobs had boosted numbers 27% to 440 by March last year.
However, by July this year that figure is expected to be about 385 nationally, with 75 in Dunedin, 25 in Christchurch, 35 in Wellington and 250 in Auckland.
