Today's news that Kraft Heinz is intending to plough £140m into its Kitt Green facility - with tomato ketchup, mayonnaise and salad cream being made at the Wigan plant once more - is a welcome boost for the borough.
Here we look at some of the pictures in our archive of the world-famous factory ...
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Tomato soup - one of the many products made by Heinz.
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Heinz tomato ketchup - one of they many products made by Heinz and coming back to Wigan.
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Some of the many sauces created by Heinz.
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1989 - Princess Anne is presented with a £30,000 cheque for the Save the Children Fund, of which she was president, by Derek Dollman, Chairman of Heinz Kitt Green Fund Raising Committee.Sadly Derek died of a heart attack shortly after the princess left the factory.