Soap Production at Unilever's Port Sunlight site is due to cease next
year, and it's been estimated that around 125 jobs are to be lost. Gerry
Hare, works director at Port Sunlight said: " We will do all that
we possibly can to explore viable possible alternatives to compulsory
redundancies." Unilever recently unveiled the new European IT centre
at the site and the arrival of support facilities at Port Sunlight has
seen jobs increase by 25% over the last five years.
(Article September
2000)