Scottish food processing plant set to reopen creating 120 jobs...
A food processing firm is to create 120 jobs by taking over the former Pinneys of Scotland seafood plant that closed last year.
Bhagat Holdings has received ￡1.7 million from ministers to buy the factory and plans to start production this autumn.
The Surrey-based firm adds coatings and panko breadcrumbs to seafood and poultry for food supply companies such as Brakes.
It also supplies “filet-O-fish” to McDonald’s in Eastern Europe.
Bhagat Holdings said there was the potential to add further jobs at the Annan site, although the initial total is only a quarter of the 450 employed by Young’s Seafood before it pulled out in September. Young’s switched its salmon production to Grimsby.
The Scottish Government said its funding of Bhagat, through a Scottish Enterprise regional selective assistance grant, was “to support the company to expand its European interests to Scotland”.
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