The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.42 - Manufacture of margarine and similar edible fats
European Globalisation Fund (EGF)
Year: 2010, Case number: 10
New offshoring locations
Poland, Romania, United Kingdom
634 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 September 2009
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2010
Foreseen end date
30 June 2010
Description
The Anglo-Dutch food giant Unilever is to axe all 634 jobs with the closure of its manufacturing plant in the Czech Republic by the end of June 2010 in order to lower production costs. The company has decided to move the production to Poland, Romania and Great Britain. Laid-off workers are to be given severance pay amounting between 12 and 14 average monthly wages.
Eurofound (2009), Unilever, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Czechia, factsheet number 69537, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69537.
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