Ice cream 巨大（な）s 削減（する）s 職業s

By THIS IS MONEY
Updated: 00:00 BST, 26 September 2002

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FROZEN food-to-ice cream group Birds 注目する，もくろむ 塀で囲む's is cutting 320 職業s at a factory in Gloucester. The factory, which 雇うs 773 staff 全体にわたる, makes ice creams such as Cornetto, Solero and Magnum.

Birds 注目する，もくろむ 塀で囲む's, which is owned by Anglo-Dutch 消費者 巨大（な） Unilever, said there was an '緊急の 必要物／必要条件' to lower costs at the 工場／植物. It wants to 削減（する） costs by £12m.

Chairman James Hill said: 'We have had to make some difficult 決定／判定勝ち（する）s 早期に so that we can create a strong 壇・綱領・公約 for growth.'

The move means the factory will stop producing Twister and Romantica ice creams, although the group will continue to make the 製品s at 場所／位置s overseas.

Birds 注目する，もくろむ 塀で囲む's 強調する／ストレスd the group ーするつもりであるd to keep Gloucester as a 'centre of 製造業の excellence' but this could only be 達成するd if the 場所／位置 remained 競争の激しい.

The group is 目的（とする）ing to 削除する costs by £12m at the factory. Hill said: 'Those who do leave the 商売／仕事 will be 申し込む／申し出d a severance 一括 井戸／弁護士席 in 超過 of the statutory 最小限, together with counselling and その上の support to 補助装置 in 安全な・保証するing new 雇用.'

The move means the factory will stop producing Twister and Romantica ice creams, although the group will continue to make the 製品s at 場所／位置s overseas.

The 14 ice creams the Gloucester factory produces are Cornetto, Viennetta, Calippo, Solero, Magnum, Feast, Solero Ice, 小型の Milk, 小型の Fruits, Fruit Fives, Carte D'or, 塀で囲む's Cream of Cornetto, 同様に as the two 製品s which will 中止する 生産／産物, 新たな展開d and Romantica.