Pepsico Uk Factory Jobs At Risk

Walkers mill successful Lincoln. Credit: Steve Travelguide / Shutterstock.com

Workers astatine 4 Walkers Crisps factories successful nan UK are astatine consequence of losing their jobs arsenic PepsiCo is consulting connected restructuring proposals.

According to LeicestershireLive, 560 PepsiCo jobs are astatine risk. Around 250 of nan posts could beryllium astatine nan flagship Walkers tract successful Leicester.

Just Food has contacted PepsiCo for verification connected these figures. In a statement, nan US elephantine said: “We precocious told our teams that we will beryllium consulting connected projected changes to our operational structure, affecting a proportionality of labor astatine our snacks manufacturing sites successful nan UK.

PepsiCo is proposing nan changes astatine its 4 largest sites successful nan UK – Leicester, Coventry, Lincoln and Skelmersdale – which together employment 4,500 people, LeicestershireLive reported.

The PepsiCo spokesperson said: “No decisions will beryllium made without first consulting affected labor and their representatives. Our privilege is providing support for our group passim this process.”

The spokesperson added nan changes being projected are “intended to bring our UK sites successful statement pinch a different operating building we person had occurrence pinch astatine immoderate of our different world sites”, starring to “better ways of moving and accrued method capabilities”.

PepsiCo has made a number of changes to its accumulation web successful nan US successful caller months.

In June, nan institution halted production astatine a Frito-Lay processing works successful confederate California aft 5 decades of operation.

In February, PepsiCo revealed it was closing a snacks manufacturing works successful New York for its PopCorners brand, wherever much than 200 labor were expected to suffer their jobs.

In May, PepsiCo said it plans to double finance and much than triple output capacity astatine an under-construction salty snacks works in Kazakhstan, aiming to nutrient astatine afloat capacity by 2027.