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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
New offshoring locations
Not Available
240 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
19 March 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2007
Foreseen end date
Description
On 19 March 2007 the Danish manufacturer of refrigerators and freezers, Vestfrost in Esbjerg, announced that 240 employees will be dismissed as from July this year. The dismissals will take place in the frost box department, and their workplaces will be offshored to an EU country. The reason for offshoring are increasing prices on oil and metal - and lower labour costs in the new, so far not announced, EU country. At the end of 2006 Vestfrost dismissed 174 employees.
Sources
19 March 2007: Ritzau
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Vestfrost, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Denmark, factsheet number 65750, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65750.
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