The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10 - Manufacture of food products
400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
28 June 2004
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Dumeco Retail, a unit of the Dutch meat processing company Dumeco, will cut some 400 of its total of 2,000 jobs, the company said on 28 June 2004. The decision for the job cuts was a result of the failure in continuing the existing collaboration with Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn, as a result of which Albert Heijn has decided to have its fresh pork packing operations carried out by another company as of 1 December 2004. Dumeco Retail will therefore have to reposition its fresh meat operations for the retail market in the autumn of 2004. The majority of the production operations at the Dumeco sites in Best, Hedel and Leeuwarden will be transferred to various other Dumeco sites. Part of the employees will also be transferred to other company sites. Dumeco Retail will try to limit the number of compulsory redundancies to 200. The company has asked the central workers' council for advice, and hopes to reach an agreement with the trade unions on a social plan.
Sources
28 June 2004: De Financiële Telegraaf
1 July 2004: Het Financieele Dagblad
Citation
Eurofound (2004), Dumeco, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 60551, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60551.
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