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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10 - Manufacture of food products
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 July 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2006
Foreseen end date
Description
Hiiu Kalatööstus is a fish factory that is situated on a small island off Estonia (10 000 inhabitants). The company was founded in July 2005 after bankruptcy of another fish factory in Kõrgessaare. Economic problems of Hiiu Kalatööstus started in the beginning of 2006 when the export to Ukraine stopped due to the increased charges. The Estonian market is too small for the quantity of production.
The work in the factory was stopped in March and today about a hundred of people are on unpaid leave. The announcement of the bankruptcy is postponed to September when the employees who have been worked less than 12 months will become eligible for unemployment benefits.
Sources
10 July 2006: Eesti Päevaleht
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Hiiu Kalatööstus, Bankruptcy in Estonia, factsheet number 63780, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63780.
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