[2] In 1969, the extension to the factory was begun by local MP Joe Ashton; it would employ 300 more people.

Cardboard for the tubs is provided by Sonoco Europe, in Chesterfield; the former Robinson Paperboard Packaging was bought in July 2011.

Oxo was made at Great Harwood from 1939 to December 1992, when production was moved to Worksop by Unilever.

Around four hundred employees had been at the Great Harwood site in Lancashire, but Unilever had tried to build a new factory in the 1980s, which was blocked by the local council.

[32] In 1995 Ragú sauce and Chicken Tonight started to be made at the site, the first in the UK; there were many TV advertisements.

[33] The process line was built by T Musk Engineering of Swadlincote, part of WT Parker.

[36][37] Birds Eye was bought in 1943 by Unilever, but Worksop had nothing to do with frozen peas, this was all largely at Lowestoft in Suffolk.

In the 1960s the Unilever Food Development Unit on Greyhope Road was at the Torry Food Science Laboratory, near Aberdeen, where it developed accelerated freeze drying, which the British government had required Unilever to investigate, during the Cold War.