Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Choc horror

The British chocolate industry seems to be in meltdown.

Nestle Rowntree is to cut 645 jobs at its York factory as it moves production of Smarties to Germany, Black Magic to the Czech Republic and Dairy Box to Spain.

The announcement comes just six months after the company made 243 people redundant, and a year after Terry's of York - the makers of that Christmas stocking staple, the Chocolate Orange - shut up shop for good and its parent company, Kraft, moved production across the channel.

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