Jobs are at risk as Gousto announces it will close a Spalding factory

A food manufacturer has announced that it will be closing one of its Spalding factories – and is making redundancies.

Gousto says it has decided to close its oldest factory, which is near Springfields, and hopes to redeploy some of its workers to its other site in Clay Lake.

The firm, which supplies supplies recipe kit boxes to homes, has not released the number of redundancies.

A spokesman said: “We’ve recently reviewed our manufacturing footprint alongside our continued investment into a fully automated factory network. We’ve sadly decided to decommission our oldest site in Springfields, which was up for renewal in 2024.

“While this decision will, regrettably, result in a number of redundancies, we’re planning to redeploy impacted Springfields colleagues where possible, to our more technologically advanced site in nearby Clay Lake.

“A tough but logical evolution of our factory set up, this will allow us to optimise operations and significantly enhance our proposition for customers.

“However, we remain deeply grateful to those affected employees, who’ve been instrumental to Gousto’s success.”

The company had warned in June last year that there could be redundancies.

Last yeark Bakkavor closed its Sutton Bridge site.