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Ready meals firm to create 150 jobs

A company in Consett specialising in chilled ready meals will create 150 new jobs**.**

International Cuisine Ltd, based on the Hownsgill Industrial Park, will start recruiting this month.

The firm said positions to be filled ranged from management to shop floor roles, in all areas of the operation.

It said “rapidly growing demand” had helped create the positions. International Cuisine Limited currently employs 579 staff.

It is a subsidiary of the Daniels Group and was established in 1988 with 14 employees in a small factory on No.1 Industrial Estate, Consett.

It supplies chilled ready meals for leading supermarket groups and smaller retailers, both in the UK and overseas.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .