The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) has welcomed news that General Mills has agreed to sell its Jus-Rol facility in Berwick to Country Style Foods.
A Leeds-based bakery company has been ordered to pay more than £9,000 after a 26-year old worker lost two finger tips in the drive chain of a conveyor.
Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan has sold pie maker Pooles of Wigan to Country Style Foods, safeguarding 60 jobs at the company, after falling out with chief executive Neil Court-Johnston.
Okehampton-based premium chocolate firm Browne’s Chocolates has closed its doors and sent around 30 staff home, in a town already reeling from the news of 300 food manufacturing redundancies.
