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Kraft cuts 200 jobs at Bournville, Chirk and Marlbrook | Kraft cuts 200 jobs at Bournville, Chirk and Marlbrook |
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Food giant Kraft Foods is to cut 200 jobs under plans to invest £50m in its chocolate and biscuit manufacturing. | Food giant Kraft Foods is to cut 200 jobs under plans to invest £50m in its chocolate and biscuit manufacturing. |
The firm, which owns Cadbury, said jobs would go at sites at Bournville, Birmingham, Chirk in Flintshire, north Wales, and Marlbrook in Herefordshire. | The firm, which owns Cadbury, said jobs would go at sites at Bournville, Birmingham, Chirk in Flintshire, north Wales, and Marlbrook in Herefordshire. |
The losses will be made through redeployment and voluntary redundancies over two years from next March. | The losses will be made through redeployment and voluntary redundancies over two years from next March. |
A new biscuit line will be launched at the Sheffield plant, creating 20 new jobs, the firm said. | |
Kraft said it would be making "significant investment" across four of its sites over the next two years. | Kraft said it would be making "significant investment" across four of its sites over the next two years. |
In March last year, following its acquisition of Cadbury, Kraft made a series of commitments to employees, including no further plant closures and no compulsory redundancies in UK manufacturing for two years. | |
'Speed up production' | |
The firm said these commitments remained "fully in force" and were not changed by the job losses announcement. | |
The £6m investment in Sheffield will see Oreo and BelVita biscuits being made in the UK for the first time, alongside existing production of Trebor, Maynards and Bassetts candy at the plant. | |
Kraft said additional money would be spent on a series of projects across three other manufacturing sites. | |
This includes £13.5m at Bournville, £3.4m at Chirk and £2.6m at Marlbrook. | |
The company said the remaining funds would be spent on a range of projects to upgrade infrastructure, speed up production, reduce waste and improve energy efficiency. |