Kraft admits it reneged on Somerdale promise after 'Googling' Polish factory
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This doesn't bode well for the nation's favourite chocolate brand. Cadbury's new American owner has admitted that it reneged on its promise to keep the Somerdale factory open, simply because it couldn't be bothered to check out a rival Polish factory.
A Kraft executive has come under fire from British MPs today and the heated exchange has thrown up some hilarious comments... although this is obviously no laughing matter for the workers of Somerdale who are now out of a job.
The Unite union called for a 'Cadbury law' on foreign takeovers.

Boo! Hiss! Those villains at Kraft, who tore the heart out of our great British chocolate-making heritage have now gone back on a promises to keep a Cadbury factory open by announcing that they will in fact shut it and lose 400 jobs.
The pound has perked up a bit lately but there is no escaping the fact that going abroad has become much more expensive in the last couple of years.
Cadbury is just the latest in a string of British businesses that have been swallowed up by foreign companies over the years, sparking a wave of national outrage. Disgusted by the group's imminent £12 billion takeover by "processed cheese company" Kraft, some loyal customers have vowed to never buy a Cadbury chocolate bar again.
Finally, the global cheesemaker Kraft made Britain's chocolate giant Cadbury an offer they just couldn't refuse.

It has been another grim year for the world economy, but 2009 could have been a lot worse than it was. 


Grim unemployment figures continue to dog our hopes of a happy ending to the economic tale of woe, and the particularly unsettling is the news that one in five of 16 to 24-year-olds is out of work, the highest level since Office of National Statistics records began in 1992.
