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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.11 - Processing and preserving of meat
New offshoring locations
United Kingdom
110 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
8 April 2015
Employment effect (start)
9 April 2015
Foreseen end date
30 June 2015
Description
Danish meat producer Danish Crown is to cut 150 jobs and close the slaughterhouse in Faabog on Fuen over the next two months. In January 2014 the employees were informed that production was to be moved to Bugle in England, but no specific time line was mentioned. According to media sources, the last few activities in Faaborg will be closed down in the first quarter of 2016.
The closure is due a decline in the Danish pig market and high labour costs in Denmark. Danish Crown's press manager Jens Hansen said that despite the extra transport costs, labour costs in England are 60% of what they are in Denmark.
Sources
8 April 2015: politiken.dk
8 April 2015: Børsen
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Danish Crown, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Denmark, factsheet number 79305, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79305.
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