The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports this morning - “Kraft Foods Inc. has made a verbal commitment to retain its New York state plants, including a facility in Avon, in the wake of its acquisition of British candy maker Cadbury.

As Kraft was in the process of trying to buy Cadbury for $19.5 billion, the U.S. company had indicated it planned to keep open a Cadbury plant in the United Kingdom.

But after completing the acquisition, Kraft this week said the U.K. plant would close after all, with the work sent to Poland.

That prompted Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., to seek assurances from Kraft that the jobs of its approximately 2,000 workers in New York were safe. Schumer said Wednesday he had a conversation with Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld in which she said the Cadbury deal shouldn’t result in any layoffs in New York.”

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