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Closure of Unilever's factory to leave 600 without jobs.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2004
Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 8--More than 1,000 jobs went in Britain's bruised manufacturing sector yesterday, taking the total to over 45,000 this year.
And according to the GMB union, cost-cutting and restructuring left 6,300 out of work in September, a rise of 270 percent on the figure for August. The latest wave of job losses came in food and aerospace.
Unilever's decision to shut its Birds Eye factory in Grimsby will leave around 600 out of work. The group's frozen food chairman, James Hill, said that it was more economic to outsource the work.
The recession in the airline industry has hit Canadian plane-maker Bombardier, which announced more cutbacks at its Shorts factory in Belfast, where...
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