Real Crisps can only guarantee salaries until the end of October

Staff have agreed to be flexible anda small number will be able to travel to our plant in Northern Ireland, wherewe also hand fry crisps. Others may be deployed to Corby, but obviouslythat cannot be anything but a very short-term solution.

Unfortunately it looks like redundancies will be inevitable. Many of them are very skilled andwe shall be working hard to make sure we don’t lose that expertise, but clearlywe will not be able to transfer 115 people around the country.

Only weeks ago we were looking for staff at the plant to do extra hours, now we are looking at job losses. It’s hard to believe so much can change in such a short time, but we are in discussions with the Welsh Government about what can be done and we shall make sure that the Real brand will continue.