Hundreds of jobs are at risk at a billion pound-turnover pig farming and pork products business.
Pilgrim’s UK plans to close its meat factories in Coalville, north west Leicestershire, and Bury St Edmonds, in Suffolk, under cost-cutting plans. A site in Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester could be cut to four days operating a week.
It is understood that more than 300 workers at the Mantle Road site in Coalville face losing their jobs, while hundreds more could be made redundant at the Suffolk plant. Management said the closures were “essential” after the pork market was hit by a combination of lockdowns, soaring production costs and plummeting prices.
