Family-run bakery business Brace's Bakery has confirmed plans to shut one of its factories and axe jobs amid rising costs and pressures within the bread market.

Brace's wrote to its members of staff on Tuesday (October 14) stating that as a result of "increasingly difficult" market conditions directors at the company had agreed that the only "viable option" was to close their manufacturing plant on the Pen-y-Fan Industrial Estate in Blackwood.

Jonathan Brace, the director of Brace's Bakery said the company envisages there will be fewer than 20 redundancies. The majority of staff are expected to move to the Croespenmaen site, which is located around a mile away.

Jonathan and Mark Brace said: "It will be very sad to see long term loyal staff leave the business, but out of this we will be

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