More than 100 jobs go as Bakkavor food factory closes

A Lincolnshire food factory is closing with the loss of more than 100 jobs.

Bakkavor, owners of Exotic Farm Produce (EFP), in Kirton, started a 90-day consultation over the site's future in February.

The firm had emphasised the factory had been making a loss for some time and it would cease production at the end of Friday.

A spokesman said it hoped to redeploy some staff and was currently expecting about 60 redundancies.

Bakkavor added that EFP, which trades in peas, beans and exotic vegetables, had suffered from falling sales and rising costs.

The firm said that as internal job applications were still being processed, the final number of redundancies was likely to fall.