Benefit
Keeping production local
The chocolate (of which 95% is eaten by the British public anyway) having to be transported 1,200 miles each journey from Poland, using thousands of lorries a year will mean delays. Resources will be plundered unnecessarily. British citizens are encouraged to lower the use of resources. The chocolate will not travel well with possible quality damage. High emissions will be produced through transportation and this will result in irreparable damage. Again the British public are encouraged to cut emissions. Carrying on producing chocolate at source would ensure the smooth and unhindered deliverance to you, as it has always been. This would result in continued consumer satisfaction.
Land
A new factory built in Poland, with the huge increase in the value of the pound means the factory would cost £43 million more (dates only calculated from closure announcement in Oct '07 to May'08) than originally estimated.
The Cadbury Board had hoped that the land on and around which the Cadbury factory stands would be worth more if sold to property developers. However, with the credit crunch hitting harder every day, money is ridiculously hard to try to borrow. Property developers are realising it is senseless to attempt to build houses as no one can afford to buy them with mortgage pots running dry. Current sites are being ‘mothballed' and builders are laying off their staff. The building trade has hit melt down.
Cadbury jobs security
A new factory in Poland would house ‘dated' equipment and employ 750 to 1,000 people to do exactly the same work as would be done at Keynsham. Originally the move was to employ cheap Polish labour.
A study shows that a New Build at Keynsham would employ 242 people (with potential for seasonal work ie packaging) if built on the Keynsham site. This would secure jobs, not only for now but for future generations. Ultra modern machinery would be used hence high efficiency and low emissions.
More job losses in Great Britain
The ripple effect will be huge. British workers such as printers and paper makers, the cardboard industry, haulage, machinery and parts engineers to name but a few.
Maybe worst hit of all will be our British farmers. Dairy farmers keep Cadburys going with their massive supplies of milk. Then there are the British sugar farmers with their endless supplies of sugar to Cadburys.
To stay would mean preventing these job losses.
Building a new factory on the Keynsham site would mean employment for our building industry etc. A New Build factory would mean continued, unhindered supplies to the British public and a place where efficiency and production could excel. On the other hand houses built on the site (of which 80% is classed as flood plain) would result in empty houses due to the mortgage squeeze and no extra credit for councils.
Say No to POLAND
Say YES to production in KEYNSHAM, GREAT BRITAIN.
