The McVitie’s factory in Tollcross opened 100 years ago and employs 500 people making products such as Hobnobs and Rich Tea biscuitsA “compelling proposal” to secure the future of the threatened McVitie’s biscuit factory in east Glasgow will be made to the owners of the site. Nearly 500 jobs are at risk at the factory in Tollcross, which opened nearly 100 years ago and makes confections including Hobnobs and Rich Tea biscuits. SponsoredIts parent company, the Turkish-owned Pladis, has blamed “excess capacity” at its UK sites and plans to close the Glasgow factory in the second half of next year and move production elsewhere. Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to do “everything we possibly can” to save the factory. A fresh bid to save the site will be made on Tuesday by an action group made up of union chiefs, politicians and business people, which would see

Source: The Times July 26, 2021 23:01 UTC