date:Oct 25, 2013
ce of the horsemeat crisis, she said. In supermarkets, ready-meal aisles were deserted ... It's what you call collateral damage.
She noted that sales of ready meals were down by a quarter from a year ago, after falling 40 percent in the immediate aftermath of the scandal, making the Beauvais plant, which produces meals under the Maggi brand, uneconomical.
The plant closure will lead to 165 job cuts, but employees will be offered packages or new jobs at an ice cream factory on the same site tha