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05/05/2005
Jobs to go at potato processing plant
Around 20 jobs are to go at a Co Antrim potato processing plant, it was confirmed on Thursday.
Ballymoney Foods said its business was being undermined by imports of cheaper chips from the Netherlands and Belgium and that the jobs would be lost as it tried to cut costs and stabilise its frozen chip production business.
Last year the company’s factory had been saved from closure when a growers consortium bought it for a reported £2.75 million.
However, the firm has been unable to meet a sales target of 300 tonnes per week which was set by the group of 60 potato growers from Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic who took over the business last year.
Management at the company said weekly sales were currently running at less than 200 tonnes.
(MB)
Ballymoney Foods said its business was being undermined by imports of cheaper chips from the Netherlands and Belgium and that the jobs would be lost as it tried to cut costs and stabilise its frozen chip production business.
Last year the company’s factory had been saved from closure when a growers consortium bought it for a reported £2.75 million.
However, the firm has been unable to meet a sales target of 300 tonnes per week which was set by the group of 60 potato growers from Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic who took over the business last year.
Management at the company said weekly sales were currently running at less than 200 tonnes.
(MB)
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