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HP Sauce gone :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/w...ds/6455565.stm

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So thats why it was on offer at Asda yesterday - if I'd have know people were losing jobs over it I would have bought Daddies :)

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Nnnnnoooooooooooo
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yep.. another institution gone to be produced cheaper on the continent,,,,

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Ridiculous to think that Mr Blair wants people in work & yet let a big employer up sticks abroad leaving many workers unemployed!

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Maybe I read your post wrongly accymel but how is this Blair's fault?

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Has he tried to save this company or encourage it to keep it going - a big firm upping sticks - you have to ask yourself why? & the gov will have something to do with it

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The firm will more than likely have influential shareholders on the continent which has encouraged the move.
I doubt there's anything the government could've done.

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Oh NOOOOOO:eek:
my daughter loves her hp sauce she'll go mental if she dont get her sauce on her chips!!
whys it going to the bloody netherlands??:confused:
and what about our bacon butty's!!!???:mad:

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............keep a bottle could Be worth summat you know:D

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You try and close a plant in France.
It is too easy to make people redundant in this country. We need the law changing to make it harder and more expensive to close down UK businesses.

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It may not be Blair’s fault directly shakermaker but he is the head of a government that is taxing us all out of existence. Thus you can hardly blame a manufacturer going to where he is allowed to keep more of the profits.

On a slight tangent – has anyone noticed that the new upside down bottles of sauce, ketchup and salad cream contain a liquid that isn’t quite as viscous as the right way up bottles, presumably to aid the stuff to come out.

I’ve been standing my sauce bottles upside down for donkey’s years once they became about only one quarter full and I never had any problems squeezing it out.

So once again we are getting short changed.

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What do the Dutch know about making the best sausage butty sauce around? How can it be cheaper to produce it on the continent is what I want to know?

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It may not be Blair’s fault directly shakermaker but he is the head of a government that is taxing us all out of existence. Thus you can hardly blame a manufacturer going to where he is allowed to keep more of the profits.--- thats it in a nutshell shaker, any employer will sod off to where he can make more profit,if hes able, its called business, crap i know but thats the way of it.

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Thanks for clearing that up Neil & Jambutty.
It is always sad to read when people lose their jobs & redundancies from large firms are becoming all too common these days.

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What are the wages like there? Most firms move production like this because of cheaper wages not taxes, which saves them huge amounts.

Theres nothing Blair could have done realistically, he can't bail certain companies out that wouldn't be fair on the others.

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Course he can't bail companies out Cyfr ... just that as the title... a great British Institution .. another creaming off of our past skills .. H.P. did mean Houses of Parliament after all. Moral loss, besides job loss ... very sad.

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I noticed HP is owned by Heinz...the location/country where a product is made is of no relevance whatsoever to a multi-national conglomerate. Heinz say they have to make £25 million of savings?.. the HP factory must have been running at a loss, i can't work out how moving production to Holland will save money, but I don't think Dutch workers are paid any lower than British.

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It's all down to production lines, switch overs and transport costs.

If the production lines in Holland run faster than the ones over here or need less people to man them then they are more efficient so cheaper. If the product line can be cleaned quicker and the bulk shipping costs are more efficient than in the UK they are going to transfer. It could be down to 24 hr working - cheaper to have one factory working 24 hours rather than two factories working 12 hours - less management and infrastructure.

These big companies have to go with what the shareholders want and so I doubt the government could intervene. It would be nice if they could and keep the jobs in the UK.

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An aside:

Does anyone remember Hoe's Sauce? It used to be my father's (and my) favorite.