Hoover Announce Consultation with Manufacturing Employees in
Well here is the announcement...!!
"DESPITE sustained investment, and the efforts of our committed workforce, a challenging trading environment has resulted in us being unable to produce competitively priced laundry products at our Merthyr Tydfil manufacturing site.
Regretfully, to ensure that Hoover Candy becomes more competitive we must consider all of our options, including the possibility of the cessation of manufacture at Merthyr Tydfil.
With effect from today, Tuesday, November 18, 2008, we have commenced a consultation process with our Merthyr Tydfil-based manufacturing employees.
We are committed to maintaining our Sales, Marketing and After Sales Service operations within the UK.
The consultation, at this stage, does not include our headquarter functions at Merthyr Tydfil that consist of the finance, legal, information technology, customer order processing, transport and logistics, UK finished goods warehouse and distribution departments.
Nor does it affect our after sales service call centres and the management of our field service engineer team.
DAVID J LUNT
Vice President - Group Human Resources
DESPITE sustained investment, and the efforts of our committed workforce, a challenging trading environment has resulted in us being unable to produce competitively priced laundry products at our Merthyr Tydfil manufacturing site.
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