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Manufacturing (12) Manufacture of tobacco products 12 - Manufacture of tobacco products 12 - Manufacture of tobacco products
New offshoring locations
Poland
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 September 2005
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2005
Foreseen end date
30 September 2006
Description
British tobacco company Imperial Tobacco will cut 200 jobs at its cigarette factory in Berlin and transfer production to Poland. The fourth-largest tobacco-company in the world plans to save £10 million per year. Affected workers will be offered jobs at Imperial Tobacco's other factories in Langenhagen (Germany) or Tarnowo (Poland).
Sources
24 September 2005: Berliner Morgenpost
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Reemtsma, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 62321, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/62321.