Takeover Panel to see in to Kraft"s closure of Cadbury bureau Business

Workers from the bureau in Keynsham, nearby Bristol, protesting outward Cadbury"s domicile in London in 2007. Kraft betrothed to retreat the closure but voiced last month that it would close after all. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

The Takeover Panel is questioning possibly Kraft pennyless the despotic manners during the conflict to win carry out of Cadbury, as the sale of one of Britain"s best-loved firms to a unfamiliar predator continues to rankle.

The exploration stems from Kraft"s preference to close Cadbury"s Somerdale plant in Keynsham, nearby Bristol, notwithstanding the American firm"s arch executive, Irene Rosenfeld, earnest at the opening of the bid conflict that she would retreat the preference set in sight by the prior management.

Last month, inside of a week of Kraft"s £11.9bn suggest winning shareholder approval, Kraft repelled kinship leaders and politicians by announcing that the plant, that employs 400 workers, would close after all.

The about-face strong kinship doubts over Kraft"s joining to preserving British jobs in the arise of the understanding that saw the confectioner subsumed inside of a $50bn (£33bn) turnover conglomerate. In serve to the Somerdale pursuit losses, up to 150 jobs are in jeopardy at Cadbury"s offices in Uxbridge, west London, and Bournville in Birmingham as Kraft looks to weed out repetitious roles.

If Kraft is found to have breached the panel"s code, it could face a in isolation or open "statement of censure". The row has no powers to meddle in the bid or levy fines.

Kraft"s preference to press on with the closure of Somerdale appeared to come out of the blue with the commercial operation secretary, Lord Mandelson, angry that he had not been forewarned. MPs will subject Kraft management team when they crop up at the Commons business, creation and skills name cabinet after this month.

The review came to light after Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Conservative celebration claimant for North-East Somerset, wrote to the Takeover Panel arguing that Kraft"s shift of heart pennyless manners perfectionist that bidders "prepare statements with the top grade of caring and accuracy" and not have statements that, "while not factually inaccurate, might be misleading".

Rees-Mogg pronounced Kraft"s poise was "shameful". "It gave people in Keynsham fake goal in the prospectus, that was possibly drifting or on purpose misleading," he said.

Explaining the preference to close Somerdale, Kraft argued that Cadbury had invested some-more than £100m in mending the Polish factories, with prolongation of a little lines set to be eliminated as shortly as the summer. Brands done at Somerdale embody Fry"s Chocolate Cream, Double Decker and Crunchie. In a statement, Rosenfeld said: "It became transparent that it is impractical to retreat the closure programme, notwithstanding the strange vigilant to do so. While this is a formidable decision, we have changed fast to finish any serve uncertainty."

A orator for Kraft said: "Throughout the transaction, it has never been the process to criticism on the UK Takeover Panel. Any questions should be addressed to the row itself."

A orator for the Takeover Panel declined to comment.