Tea
Job losses at Twinings not everyones cup of tea.
Four hundred (400) jobs are to be lost as Associated British Foods plans to close it North Shields packaging plant and move a third of its total production to Poland and China. The rest will go to its other Twinings factory in Andover, Hants.
The Guardian.co.uk reports,
Twinings, which has used Stephen Fry as its advertising frontman, said the changes were ” a necessary step which will allow Twinings to remain competitive” and that it made no sense to import tea from China, package it in the UK and then export it back to the Far East.
The jobs will be lost in the next two years and the reorganisation will cost £19m.
Total losses = 400
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