UK chicken heavyweight 2 Sisters Food Group is creating more than 130 extra jobs at its factory in Derby, central England, after clinching a new deal with a “major retailer”.
The factory already employs around 500 workers – but the new order will mean it needs to expand production so it is looking to take on an extra 136 staff.
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The identity of the retailer has not been revealed.
2 Sisters bought the Derby site from S&A Foods in October 2015 after the ethnic food maker entered administration.
Site director Billy Storer said: “Derby is a great place to work and the business has invested in the very latest production line technology, which has provided us with a great platform to ramp up volume and develop new cooked chicken products.”
2 Sisters announced plans to create an additional 100 jobs at the Derby plant in January last year.
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By GlobalDataThe company said at the time that the move followed a “multi-million pound investment in the new state-of-the-art facility”.
The 100 new employees were necessary as 2 Sisters moved from a single to double working shift pattern.
In December 2 Sisters announced it was increasing output at another UK chicken processing site at Flixton in Suffolk.
