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 10.61 - Manufacture of grain mill products
New offshoring locations
Spain, Portugal
112 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
23 September 2005
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2006
Foreseen end date
Description
Swiss food company Nestlé announced on 23 September 2005 that it was closing its cereals factory in Hamoir, near Liège. 112 people were affected by the decision from January 2006 on, when production was to be relocated to Spain and Portugal. Management of the factory planned to retrain 32 employees in order to develop a new production activity. On 11 August 2006, almost a year after the closure of the factory, 32 employees are working for Belhourte, the new company operating on the site. 44 employees found a new job and 30 people took early retirement.
Eurofound (2005), Nestlé, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Belgium, factsheet number 62295, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62295.
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