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Manufacturing (10 - 11) Manufacture of food and beverage 10.8 - Manufacture of other food products 10.82 - Manufacture of cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery
New offshoring locations
Slovakia
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 November 2010
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2010
Foreseen end date
1 December 2011
Description
On 10 November 2010, Malaco, a chocolate and sugar confectionery factory in Slagelse owned by Leaf, announced that the factory will phase down the production and close within a year or so. Production will be moved to Levice in Slovakia and 200 employees will be made redundant when the factory closes. Malaco-Leaf has 290 employees in Denmark, and the sales department will be kept in Brøndby.
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Malaco, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Denmark, factsheet number 71187, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/71187.