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 10.92 - Manufacture of prepared pet foods
121 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 October 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 November 2011
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
On 10 April 2011 the pet food manufacturer Continentale Nutrition announced that it will cut its workforce by 121 until 2012. Around 99 employees will be made redundant with the closure of the plant in Vedène (Bouches-du-Rhône) and 22 jobs will be cut at its headquarters in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais).
The plant received high levels of investment in the 1990s in order to support the growth of the company in southern Europe and its "wet pet food" market. However, it is said that this segment is now losing ground to the segment of dry pet food.
Eurofound (2011), Continentale Nutrition, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 72552, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72552.
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