Cadbury Announce Cut-backs at UK Chocolate Plants
Chocolate production from Keynsham would move to both its Bournville factory and to its sister factory in Poland, with the Bournville site receiving an additional £40m investment.
08/10/07 Cadbury Trebor Bassett has announced proposals to restructure its UK chocolate manufacturing in order to achieve greater supply chain efficiencies.
In order to continue to grow and remain competitive in the future, the company said it needs to operate more effectively and reduce costs. Therefore, we the company is proposing a phased closure of our Keynsham chocolate factory from 2009 to 2010, affecting all 500 employees.
Chocolate production from Keynsham would move to both its Bournville factory and to its sister factory in Poland, with the Bournville site receiving an additional £40m investment.
This investment would enhance Bournville's status as a centre of excellence for chocolate production, and enable greater efficiencies within the site's chocolate assortment production.
It is also proposed that some chocolate assortment production would move from Bournville to Poland in 2008. This, together with an ongoing efficiency improvement plan would result in a reduction of approximately 200 jobs in Bournville from 2008 to 2010. It is hoped that any phased redundancies can be achieved voluntarily.
Our other two UK chocolate manufacturing sites at Chirk in North Wales and Leominster, Herefordshire are unaffected by this proposal, the company said in a statement.
