Kraft to cut Cadbury head office jobs

Danny Morgan
Posted: Tuesday, July 6, 2010 9:41 am

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Kraft Foods is set to cut jobs at the UK head office of Cadbury with up to 120 jobs at risk.

Kraft has already started a redundancy consultation with staff in management and admin based at Uxbridge according the The Independent. If the plans continue then only 45 of the current 165 staff with keep their jobs.

A Kraft spokesman commenting on the redundancies said: "We always were clear that the global head office would be in Chicago and therefore that the UK based head office employees would go into a consultation about redundancy."

Since the takeover a number of high profile staff have left Cadbury including chief executive Todd Stitzer and Phil Rumbol - the man behind the award-winning Cadbury 'Gorilla' campaign. Kraft had originally intended for Rumbol to work at its European headquarters in a marketing role, but Rumbol was not keen on relocating his family to Zurich.

The most senior executive to have been left at Cadbury since the Kraft takeover was Mark Reckitt who, along with four others, quit the company. Reckitt helped with the integration of Kraft and Cadbury.