{"id":15931,"date":"2025-01-28T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/?p=15931"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:48:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:48:30","slug":"vpk-confirms-proposal-to-close-leeds-uk-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/vpk-confirms-proposal-to-close-leeds-uk-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"VPK confirms proposal to close Leeds, UK facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>VPK UK &amp; Ireland, part of VPK Packaging Group, today regretfully confirms it has entered into a collective consultation process with its employees to close its production site in Leeds by 29<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;August 2025. The company has taken the difficult decision in response to the long-term commercial viability of the facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeremy Anderson<\/strong>, Managing Director, VPK UK and Ireland, said: \u201cIt is with great sadness that we make this announcement today. We have not come to the decision lightly and I would like to express my deepest gratitude for all the hard work and commitment of our employees in Leeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOver recent years, the business has faced significant challenges and, as a result, has been losing money. Despite everyone\u2019s best efforts to reverse the situation, we do not see the outlook improving to the level or speed that gives us the confidence that we can prevent further losses. We have therefore made the difficult decision to transfer the current production volume to other VPK sites, ensuring our customer\u2019s experience no disruption in their service.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of today\u2019s announcement, the management team will now begin consultation with the local trade union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anderson added: \u201cNaturally we take our responsibilities to each of the 59 affected employees very seriously and will be working with them to find financial and practical support, while at the same time engaging local outplacement organisations, once the consultation period is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VPK UK &amp; Ireland, part of VPK Packaging Group, today regretfully confirms it has entered into a collective consultation process with its employees to close its production site in Leeds by 29th&nbsp;August 2025. The company has taken the difficult decision in response to the long-term commercial viability of the facility. Jeremy Anderson, Managing Director, VPK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-15931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corrugated-folding-carton","8":"tag-vpk-group"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15933,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15931\/revisions\/15933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}