date:Oct 24, 2013
After five months of uncertainty, Simplot Australia announced this morning its Devonport frozen vegetable plant would stay open to fulfill contracts with Coles and Woolworths.
However, it will close by 2019 if significant savings cannot be made.
Simplot's Bathurst factory plant, in New South Wales, is being downsized.
Simplot managing director Terry O'Brien said the looming trade waste upgrade at Devonport also represented a potential closure factor despite TasWater's pledge to work with t