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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10 - Manufacture of food products
111 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 June 2011
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
Fazer Leipomot, a bakery operation of Finnish Fazer Group, has announced a total of 111 redundancies in three locations in Finland.
Fazer Leipomot is completely closing two bakeries, Seinajoki and Turku. Reduncies amount to 21 and 57, respectively. In addition, the company is laying off 33 of 37 employees, who have processed orders from grocery stores in the capital region. Instead, Fazer Leipomot is planning to expand on-site baking in grocery stores.
Fazer Leipomot started negotiations with employee representatives on the lay-offs in May and has now concluded them with this announcement.
Sources
30 June 2011: Kauppalehti
30 June 2011: Helsingin Sanomat
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Fazer Leipomot, Closure in Finland, factsheet number 72161, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72161.
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