Spring Gully boosting production shifts

Food business Spring Gully is taking on extra staff to help cope with a boost in sales.

The South Australian pickles and spreads maker went into voluntary administration recently, due to big debts.

Managing director Kevin Webb said strong public support and new contracts had boosted the company's prospects and it would now run two shifts per day instead of one, increasing production by up to 50 per cent.

He said three extra full-time staff would be taken on for the next three months.

A first shift each day will operate from 7:00am-3:00pm on two production lines.

The second will be from 2:30pm-10:30pm and run one production line.

Mr Webb said it was a big turnaround from the company's position five weeks ago and appeared to be sustainable.

"We were worried about pantry-fill which is a term where people just buy up and fill their pantries and then there's a big gap or lull," he said.

"But it appears that sales are still going and pantry-fill may not be an issue for us.

"We're trying to get the best deal we can for Spring Gully and its creditors and the role is to get that finalised so that we can put a proposal to the creditors. Having the extra sales is certainly a boost in our ability to raise the right proposal for the creditors."

Source: ABC News, 20 May 2013