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West Midlands; Shropshire and Staffordshire; Staffordshire CC
Location of affected unit(s)
Blythe Bridge
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
New offshoring locations
Poland, Italy
600 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
8 May 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007
Description
The jobs of more than 600 domestic appliance factory workers are in doubt after the owners announced plans to close the site. Indesit said they were in talks to shut the former Creda factory in Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire, at the end of the year. The firm said production will move to Poland and Italy. Indesit said it is only a proposal at the moment but it admits making cookers in the county is unsustainable.
Sources
8 May 2007: BBC Website
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Indesit, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 65340, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65340.
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