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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.51 - Operation of dairies and cheese making
New offshoring locations
Denmark
130 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
13 March 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
13 March 2013
Description
Arla Foods, a joint Danish-Sweden multinational dairy company, has closed its factory in Falkenberg, Sweden and thereby made 130 employees redundant. The closure is due to a centralization of the cheese production, which will be moved to Denmark.
Arla announced the restructuring in April 2011. The reason for the closure is hard competition and a need for more effective production, according to the management.
Arla Foods is a global dairy company and a co-operative owned by dairy farmers. The company has production facilities in 12 countries and sales offices in a further 30, with a total of more than 18,000 employees. Arla Foods was formed as the result of a merger between the Swedish dairy cooperative Arla and the Danish dairy company MD Foods on 17 April 2000. It is based in Århus.
Sources
13 March 2013: Lantbrukets Affärstidning
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Arla Foods, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 75077, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75077.
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