Bendicks set to move 140 jobs to Germany

Bendicks parent firm Storck is looking to shift its mint chocolate production from the UK to Germany, threatening up to 140 jobs.

In a statement, Storck UK notes, “We have recently announced the start of a consultation period to determine the future of its production facility in Winchester.

Until the consultation is completed there will be no further announcements.”

Bendicks was founded in 1930 when Oscar Benson and Colonel “Bertie” Dickson opened a small confectionery business in Kensington, London.

Steve Brine, Conservative MP for Winchester and Chandler’s Ford, adds, “The managing director has told me that Storck has been making a loss on Bendicks chocolates here in the UK for a number of years. In talking to ministers, I will be saying to them ‘what can you do to say to this company that it is better to stay here in Britain than to go abroad? What I am saying is that it shouldn’t be that easier to do that… we should be creating jobs in the private sector not losing them.”