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East (England); Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Cambridgeshire CC
Location of affected unit(s)
Holme
Sector
Agriculture / Forestry / Fishing 01 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities 01.1 - Growing of non-perennial crops 01.13 - Growing of vegetables and melons, roots and tubers
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 August 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
Northern Irish based food producer Hughes Mushrooms have announced that they are to create 100 new jobs through the opening of a new site on the UK mainland. The facility in Holme, East Yorkshire will create 70 jobs in its initial phase and this will increase to 100 positions by the end of 2017. It is being reported that the positions will be full-time. The company has taken the decision to expand production in order to keep up with customer demand, and will start supplying to the market sometime in mid September 2017.
Sources
15 August 2017: Insider Media
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Hughes Mushrooms, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 91842, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/91842.