Bakery group plans closures

AROUND 100 jobs are likely to be lost with the closure of two Greater Manchester bakeries.

Irish food manufacturer McCambridge Group, which owns the sites, plans to close them down as part of its strategy to streamline the business.

It acquired the Lisa Bakery in Oldham, which makes mini rolls and employs 60 staff, and the William Lusty factory in Heywood, which employs 40 staff,  in July 2007 when Inter Link Foods was bought out of administration.

The group wants to transfer production to other North West-based manufacturing facilities within the firm’s own label division.

It has started a 30-day consultation period with its employees and the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union on the proposals.