More than a year after its closure was announced, Dunedin's landmark Cadbury chocolate factory is shutting up shop.
Production workers at the site, which dates back 150 years, will clock off for the final time at midday on Thursday, on the eve of Easter Weekend.
The few employees left will be engineering workers decommissioning the plant. In February 2017, owner Mondelez International told the 350 staff of its plans to move production to Australia.
E tu union on-site vice-president Teresa Gooch, who has worked at the factory for 17 years, says it has been a rough few months for those still there.
For most, this week has been a final tidy-up in near-empty premises. After having watched the equipment being dismantled around them, Ms Gooch says, most people can't wait to finish up.
