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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Chemicals And Chemical Products 20.4 - Manufacture of soap and detergents, cleaning and polishing preparations, perfumes and toilet preparations
New offshoring locations
Spain, France
300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 January 2021
Employment effect (start)
27 January 2021
Foreseen end date
31 August 2022
Description
As announced on 27 January 2021, the US beauty company Coty will be closing its perfume factory in Cologne, which will result in the loss of 300 jobs by summer 2022. Coty intends to save up to €600 million with the closure and thus, the relocation of production to cheaper locations in Spain and France is inevitable. The factory in Cologne is Coty’s only site in Germany and has been manufacturing perfumes for Hugo Boss and Bruno Banani since 2003. The factory was previously owned by Procter and Gamble but was bought by Coty in 2016.
Information on a social plan are not yet available.
Eurofound (2021), Coty, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 103485, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103485.
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