Kraft Food has announced it is to axe more than 400 jobs at a UK Cadbury site just days after it pledged to expand operations in the UK.
The US firm will close Cadbury’s Somerset plant, which makes some of the nation’s most loved confectionaries such as Crunchie, Curly Wurly and Milk Tray.
Facilities will be moved over to a production site in Poland, which has sparked anger among UK staff.
Fears for further job losses across Cadbury’s 4,500-strong UK workforce have now been raised with major concerns that the British chocolate will no longer be rolling off the conveyor belt anymore.
Only recently did chief executive Irene Rosenfeld tell the Times that UK jobs were "very important" to the firm who wanted to expand its base in the UK.
Jennie Formby, a national officer for trade union Unite, told the Daily Mail the move sends "worrying message" to employees.
"Somerdale is the first casualty of Kraft’s ownership," she told the news provider.
"Promises were made to the workers which it seems Kraft had no intention of fulfilling, and which appear now to have been a cynical attempt to curry favour with the British public during what was an extremely unwelcome and unpopular takeover."