A major food firm is making redundancies at a North Wales site. Oscar Mayer is one of the largest manufacturers of chilled ready meals and prepared foods in the UK.
It supplies many of the leading supermarkets across the country, making more than three million meals across their factories per week, with the majority being produced in Wrexham and Flint.
But the company has placed 135 staff at risk of redundancy at Wrexham - informing workers this week. However, it says that there are also 101 vacancies at its North Wales sites so they expect the final number of redundancies to be vastly reduced.
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Ian Toal, Chief Executive of Oscar Mayer, said: “These proposals are not made lightly, but we believe are necessary to ensure a long-term sustainable future for our business.
"The UK chilled foods sector remains highly competitive. For us to continue to compete and grow we have to take steps to become more efficient so that we can deliver on our strategy to innovate, expand the market and meet the changing demands of consumers and our customers.
“We don’t underestimate the impact of this announcement on our much-valued, hard-working team in Wrexham and will provide them with all the support we can, including offering alternative roles at our Wrexham and Flint sites, should these plans proceed as currently proposed.”
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