Unilever is planning to close sites in England and Wales, cutting up to 800 jobs and offshoring to Bangalore.

The proposed cuts affect factories in Slough and Swansea, a distribution centre in Bridgend and an office in Ewloe, north Wales. They could mean 500 direct job losses, 300 redundancies among contractors and third parties, with 100 jobs offshored to its IT centre in Bangalore.

At the same time, it plans to invest £40m in its ‘historic home’ - Port Sunlight on the Wirral. This investment is expected to create 150 jobs.