- Orange - 900 staff in county Durham and 100 in Solihull lost their jobs with work outsourced to India.
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
Telecommunications
Household appliances
- Dyson - closed their Wiltshire factory with the loss of 590 jobs. Production taken to Malaysia.
Monday, 22 October 2007
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
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.
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