More than 200 jobs are to go at Cadbury's main factory at Bournville near Birmingham in a move the company says will safeguard production for the next 25 years.
US owners Mondelez said the reduction would be achieved through voluntary redundancies.
The firm announced a proposed £75 million investment at Bournville a year ago to build four state-of-the-art production lines.
ITV Central Business Correspondent Mark Gough reports that Cadbury will invest £75 million in modernising productions lines at its factory in Birmingham:
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