Overview

• The investment breaks down into £21 million for a new robotic chocolate moulding line at Stockport, £33 million to overhaul Liverpool Aintree’s ovens and infrastructure, £2 million for Carlisle’s savoury department and £12 million for UK-wide support systems.
• Stockport’s Jaffa Cake factory will gain 45 new roles while Carlisle’s historic site will recruit and train 48 colleagues, delivering 93 jobs in total to North West communities.
• New automation, including state-of-the-art robotics in Stockport and upgraded ovens at Aintree, is designed to boost production capacity and efficiency across core biscuit and cracker brands.
• The programme is forecast to cut 876 tonnes of carbon emissions each year as part of Pladis’s wider sustainability targets.
• Work began in July 2025 under Pladis’s post-2016 growth strategy and is on track to complete by the end of 2026, safeguarding operations at century-old UK factories.