Cadbury in 'embarrassing' £20m Olympics deal
Campaigners opposed to the closure of Cadbury's Keynsham factory say the company's sponsorship of the London Olympics is "embarrassing" for the 2012 games.
Amoree Radford of the Save Our Keynsham Cadbury's group, whose husband and daughter both work for the company, says its £20m sponsorship money could keep the Somerdale factory open for three more years.
She said: "How embarrassing to accept sponsorship from a British company driven by greed that will be negating Britain's calls for other countries to reduce carbon emissions and save precious resources."
A Cadbury spokesman said the 2012 support was part of its ongoing marketing and sponsorship activities.
London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton said: "Cadbury is a great British company and a trusted brand."
5 Comments
by None-Ya, brizzle
Sunday, November 16 2008, 6:35PM
“sod the keynsham crap, who cares about keynsham, theres plently of other jobs out there, christ almighty
whats more important is the fact that its bein sponsored by chocolate”
by MKH, bristol
Sunday, November 16 2008, 3:49PM
“Cadbury is promoting itself as a British company, it will be a bit embarrassing when it is revealed that it is shutting a factory in Keynsham to build one in Poland and ruining hundreds of peoples lives!”
by Jon, Bristol
Sunday, November 16 2008, 11:18AM
“Cadbury could have spent this money on keeping the factory open, but why should they? It's a business that exists to make a profit and it can spend its money any way it likes.”
by Andrew Meredith, Chippenham, Wiltshire
Saturday, November 15 2008, 4:50PM
“: It is marketing and
: has nothing to do
: with running costs
: of a factory.
I love this myopic separation of budgets; get real mate, it's money and its part of the bottom line. If they didn't spend it on marketing they could spend it on keeping the factory open. End of.”
by Alex B, Bristol
Saturday, November 15 2008, 7:27AM
“It is marketing and has nothing to do with running costs of a factory.
Yes they should reward the loyal workers of Kenysham by keeping the factory open but I'm sorry the twon things are not really related.”