{"id":29195,"date":"2022-03-22T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/?p=29195"},"modified":"2022-04-04T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:55:17","slug":"mccormick-jobs-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/2022\/03\/22\/mccormick-jobs-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of McCormick jobs at risk in plan to move production site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nHundreds of jobs are at risk at the parent company of Schwartz spices, McCormick, as it plans to move all its flavour operations from its Littleborough site to a Peterborough.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spice giant, the new Peterborough site claims to offer net zero carbon production over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>However, the new site is around 100 miles away from its current site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/2022\/02\/22\/schwartz-owner-mccormick-plans-sales-team-redundancies\/\">Schwartz owner McCormick plans sales team redundancies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegrocer.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Grocer<\/a>, the company revealed the move would impact around 380 employees at its current site, but said it was providing an &#8220;extensive people care programme which includes outplacement, financial and wellbeing support, as well as redeployment opportunities and assistance to the Peterborough site&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Around 300 new jobs are expected to be created with the opening of the Peterborough factory, which was announced in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, McCormick EMEA president Ana Sanchez said it had been a \u201cvery difficult decision\u201d, with the business \u201ccommitted&#8221; to providing its staff members at Littleborough with full support and care.<\/p>\n<p>She added that it \u201cremains a dedicated employer in the UK and redeployment opportunities to our Peterborough site will remain part of our ongoing assistance programme\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/subscribe-to-newsletter\/\" data-ol-has-click-handler=\"\">Click here to sign up to Grocery Gazette\u2019s free daily email newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of jobs are at risk at the parent company of Schwartz spices, McCormick, as it plans to move all its flavour operations from its Littleborough site to a Peterborough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":29196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3926],"tags":[8654,4059,816,5780,2255,8653,8305,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29197,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29195\/revisions\/29197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}