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Hotpoint-Indesit to close another UK plant
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Post# 280398   5/16/2008 at 08:29 (5,794 days old) by zodawash (Lincolnshire,United Kingdom)        

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Well more bad news for UK whitegoods is that Indesit is closing the factory in Peterborough which makes Hotpoint-Indesit fridges,plus the cooker factory in North Wales where production is being moved to Poland and jobs are going at the washing machine factory in North Wales.

Quoted from UKwhitegoods site :

"Indesit says the closure of the complex in Peterborough has been prompted as there has been a decline in the market for fridges across the UK. Although trade rumours would point more toward cost cutting as the primary reason as was alluded to in the leaked document we reported about In this article from January and, with the closure of the Blythe Bridge facility as well as Bodelwyddan in North Wales it leaves Hotpoint/Indesit with no UK manufacturing ability to speak of.

Indesit also said that there has been an increase in manufacturing costs.

Indesit will now consult unions over plans to halt production on 31 October with the loss of 426 jobs.

But Indesit said it was still committed to the UK and employed about 1,000 people in its head office, call centre and service centre in Morley Way, Peterborough. Shailesh Vara MP, speaking to the BBC, whose North West Cambridgeshire constituency includes the Indesit plant, said: "I am extremely disappointed at this news.

"I have already spoken with the managing director of Indesit and asked him to consider every option open to them with a view to saving as many jobs as possible.

"My sympathies go out to all those workers and their families who have this cloud hanging over them."


Steve



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