Dairy Crest plans to transfer production to its own plants, generating "significant efficiencies", said chief executive Drummond Hall.
The Nissan Motor Company of Japan has threatened to transfer production of a new subcompact from its plant in northeastern England.
It will transfer production of its popular Focus model from the Philippines to Thailand, once the factory here is completed.
ConAgra said it would close a Butterball turkey processing plant in Wallace, N.C., a move that will eliminate 450 jobs, and will transfer production to a Midwest plant.
The actor Tom Beckett said that he had not been invited to reprise his role as Chuck Rowland and Vincente Minnelli in the transfer production of "The Temperamentals".
This, says Mr Duncan, will not transfer production from Britain, but will actually safeguard jobs in Leicester, because the company will move towards being a global supplier.
(212-246-4422) www.comondsTHEetheatre.com "THE SHAPE OF THINGS" A transfer production from the Almeida Theater in London, where it was a buzzy hit, this is a show that has hip and hot ticket written all over it.
SKF AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, the world's largest maker of ball bearings, said it would close factories in Altoona, Pa., and Jamestown, N.Y., to reduce costs and transfer production to other plants in the United States and Mexico.
The company will shut down its 12-year-old plant in Dublin in the next six months and transfer production to Flextronics International and Jabil Circuit, both contract manufacturers with factories in Asia.
All remaining 316 jobs will go in the move by Terry's American owners, Kraft Foods International, which will transfer production to newer plants in Sweden and Belgium and cheaper ones in Poland and Slovakia.
