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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.1 - Processing And Preserving Of Meat And Production Of Meat Products
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
5 October 2024
Employment effect (start)
31 December 2024
Foreseen end date
30 June 2025
Description
Charal, a French meat processor, is cutting 200 jobs—two-thirds of the workforce at its Sablé-sur-Sarthe site (Pays de la Loire). The company is transferring the slaughtering and deboning activities to four nearby sites in France.
Following the October 2023 announcement of its pork business closure, the site will also discontinue its beef line in the coming months, with the slaughtering unit set to close by early 2025. The site will then be converted into a logistics platform. This is part of an internal restructuring plan ordered by the Group Bigard.
The majority of job losses will occur through natural attrition, with a significant number of retirements. Internal transfers will also be encouraged.
Eurofound (2024), Charal, Relocation in France, factsheet number 201701, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201701.
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