Telecommunications

• Orange - 900 staff in county Durham and 100 in Solihull lost their jobs with work outsourced to India.

Household appliances

• Dyson - closed their Wiltshire factory with the loss of 590 jobs. Production taken to Malaysia.

Toys / Models

Hornby trains - closed their factory taking work to China. Unfortunately I can't find how many staff lost their jobs. Please email me if you know. Thanks

Banking/Insurance

• HSBC - they've taken thousands of English call centre jobs to Asia. No lack of effort on the workers' part, their minimum wage is just too expensive!
• Lloyds TSB - 968 call centre staff in Newcastle redundant - work transferred to India.
• Norwich Union - 450 Office jobs to India.
• Barclaycard - Closed their Manchester call centre, taking work to India.

Please email me if I've missed anyone! Thanks

Travel

• Easyjet moved their call centre to Germany/Poland with the loss of 140 English jobs.

Food & Drink

• Birds Eye Walls - made over 1000 people in Grimsby and Hull redundant, taking work to Germany.
• Terry's chocolate orange - 350 factory staff on the scrapheap with work taken to Europe.
• Smarties - part of the despicable Nestle group, production of smarties was shifted to Germany with the great city of York losing 880 jobs.
• HP- Moved production to Holland leaving 125 Birmingham staff out of work.
• Cadbury's - putting 700 English workers on the scrapheap with work going to Poland.

Know of any others? Please email me If I've missed any companies out.

Automotive

• Peugeot - Made 2,300 English staff redundant, shifting work to China.