Up to 20 jobs could go at drinks firm

4:05pm Friday 6th January 2012 in News

Up to 20 jobs could go at town's drinks firm Up to 20 jobs could go at town's drinks firm

THE axe could fall on up to 20 jobs at one of Ledbury’s major employers.

Drinks firm Universal Beverages Limited (UBL), based at Little Marcle Road, has announced it plans to restructure and could shed a number of roles at its large-scale fruit milling and beverage production and packaging facility.

Staff were briefed on the plans yesterday and 30-day consultation will now be held before a final decision is made.

Gabe Cook, cider communications manager for UBL’s owners Heineken UK Limited, said: “UBL, like all companies, are responding to the economic forecast for 2012 and see the need to adjust their ways of working to ensure that they are able to respond to the changing needs of the marketplace.

“The purpose of the consultation period is to enable everyone at UBL to input into these changes and it would be inappropriate to speculate on any outcome at this stage.”

Comments(2)

Snoopbunny says...
2:28pm Sun 8 Jan 12

Very bad news for Ledbury. Shame the new supermarket has not been approved and built and those people might have been able to find a job there.

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Andrew Warmington says...
1:52pm Thu 12 Jan 12

Inevitable that the pro-superstore people would try to make capital of this sad news. The main reason I and many others oppose Sainsbury's application is because it is likely to lead to a big net loss of jobs in Ledbury, probably more than 10 times more than have gone at UBL. I don't blame anyone who is desperate for work hoping that there might be a job going at a big new store, but remember that they always grossly inflate the number of jobs likely to be on offer and most of them will be part-time.

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