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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Tobacco Products Manufacture Of Tobacco Products 12 - Manufacture of tobacco products
250 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 June 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
British Imperial Tobacco announced the closure of the Berlin manufacturing plant with the loss of 420 jobs by the end of 2011.
The company also announced that out of these 420 jobs 90 jobs will be relocated to the plant at Langenhagen, Lower Saxony, and another 80 jobs will be moved to Hamburg.
According to the employee representative on the supervisory board, the workers pay a 'political price' for the merger of Altadis and Imperial Tobacco as management wants to evenly distribute the closures in Europe.
Imperial Tobacco employs a workforce of 2,000 in Germany. The Berlin plant was at risk of closure five years ago, but it was saved due to political intervention. As the plant manufactures for the Eastern European market, the workforce has been growing over the last years.
Sources
20 June 2008: Handelsblatt
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Imperial Tobacco, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 66775, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66775.
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