Zim biggest bakeries shut down this week (31-08-07)

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Lobels Zimbabwe Managing Director ,Southern Region, Ngoni Mazango, confirmed the closure to CAJ News Thursday .

“We have stopped production for the past week since there is no flour in the country. We had the last deliveries of flour two months ago”said Mazango.

Mazango, said some millers have also ceased production because they are unable to get flour from GMB.

“We understand some millers who are our suppliers of wheat have also ceased production since the GMB has run out of wheat” he added.

The closure of the bakery companies has seen the country being hit by serious bread and confectionery shortages.

National Bakers Association (NBA) Chairman, Vincent Mangoma, also confirmed the closure of Lobels Zimbabwe due to flour shortages .

“Many bakeries are facing viability problems, Lobels Zimbabwe has final shutdown this week”, said Mangoma.

Workers who spoke to CAJ News on Thursday, said they were told to go home and wait for management to contact them.

“There has been no flour and we were told to go home since were spending the whole day doing nothing” said a worker.

When CAJ News crew visited Lobels Zimbabwe factory in Belmont industrial area in Bulawayo on Thursday a security guard manning the premises said the company is currently not operating.

Since government embarked on the controversial price cuts blitz in June many companies have collapsed-CAJ News.