2 Sisters Food Group has created a video featuring chief executive Ronald Kers appealing for workers to fill “several hundred” roles as the UK-based poultry and ready meals producer faces a surge in demand from the Covid-19 crisis.
Last week, a spokesperson for the owner of Fox’s Biscuits and Holland’s Pies said the company had launched a recruitment drive across its business for “several hundred” roles, adding: “The Government has rightly classified our colleagues in a critical sector and we are currently working in extremely challenging conditions to fulfil orders at the same time as keeping everyone safe.”
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Kers said in the social media video published on 28 March: “2 Sisters’ job is literally to feed the nation. Getting food to people has never been so important. As we come together as a country to fight the coronavirus, we need everybody’s help to keep our factories running.
“We urgently need people so we can keep delivering a full range of products to supermarkets across the country. We are recruiting now for a wide range of factory and logistics jobs up and down the country. Please join us and help feed the nation.”
2 Sisters primary business is poultry, supplied to the major UK supermarkets, along with bakery and meal solutions, which includes private-label ready meals, soups and sauces, pizza, hot cross buns, and chilled and frozen fish.
The meal solutions unit has six manufacturing sites – two in Sheffield, and one each in Carlisle, Grimsby, Rogerstone and Nottingham encompassing companies such as Cavaghan & Gray; Gunstores Bakery; Grimsby Soups & Sauces; Pennine Foods; RF Brookes; and The Pizza Factory. That’s in addition to facilities serving Fox’s and Holland’s Pies, and also its poultry operations.
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