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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.11 - Processing and preserving of meat
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 December 2007
Employment effect (start)
30 November 2007
Foreseen end date
31 January 2008
Description
Bigard, a French firm that operate in the meat processing sector, has announced that it is to create 300 new jobs in Feignies with the development of a new site. A new facility for processing beef will be developed by the firm, and the new jobs will be created by the end of January 2008. The development of the new site is a result of the firm needing to increase its production capacity after securing several new contracts. The new facility will involve an investment of 35 million EUR.
Sources
10 October 2007: La Tribune
10 October 2007: Les Echos
12 December 2007: La Tribune
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Bigard, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 66098, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66098.
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