Mondelez International will line up for more ratepayer cash for the Cadbury Chocolate Carnival, despite its plan to close the Dunedin factory and put 362 people out of work. A company spokesman said yesterday: "We won’t know if we have received the council funding for the next event until about June." Enterprise Dunedin director John Christie said community feeling would need to be taken into account in the carnival funding decision. "If you’ve got $55,000 to spend on promoting your city, you’ve got many ways of doing it," Mr Groves said. In his statement, the Mondelez spokesman said the carnival was Dunedin’s "largest free public event".

Source: Otago Daily Times February 21, 2017 17:11 UTC