Cadbury Confectionery Dunedin is to make two new products for
New Zealand and Australia this year, but has also started
consulting up to 20 staff affected by a drop in crumb
production.
It was like any other Saturday shopping expedition. The Hogg
family pulled up to the Cadbury car park and opened the
window to pay, just as they do most Saturday mornings -
except this time, a gathered crowd went wild with
celebration.
The snow that is playing havoc around the South has affected
the Dunedin Cadbury Chocolate Carnival, and shifts at the
Dunedin factory have been cancelled.
Taking part in Cadbury's "Joy Collector", a portable
recording box based at the Golden Centre during the weekend,
are, from left, Rileigh Fields (12), Alana Samuel (12) and
Nicole Samuel (10).
Newly-appointed Cadbury Confectionery Dunedin site
manager Adam Burton is promising a period of consolidation
and growth for the company so integral to the city's business
community.
Cadbury is vowing to regain its top spot, after the chocolate
giant discovered its support with the public had melted away
in the latest survey of New Zealand's most trusted brand.
The British agency which regulates business takeovers has
criticised US food company Kraft for promising to keep a
Cadbury factory open, then changing its mind after taking
control of the British chocolate company.
The $70 million investment Cadbury made in its Dunedin plant
before it was swallowed up by food giant Kraft seems to have
gone down well with the new owner.
Workers at Dunedin's Cadbury chocolate factory will get a
taste of the management style of the new owners when
negotiations over a new collective agreement begin in the
next few weeks.
