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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Beverages 11.0 - Manufacture of beverages
140 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 July 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 August 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
Polish producer of soft drinks Hoop Poland has announced that it will shut down its factory in Bielsk Podlaski. As a result, 140 employees will lose their jobs by the end of 2016. The restructuring programme aims to improve financial and organisational effectiveness of the company; the programme will help to reduce running costs and make logistics operations more efficient.
Hoop was founded in 1992. Currently, the company is a part of Kofola ÄeskoSlovensko Group, a one of the largest producer of soft drinks in Central Europe. In Poland, the company has three production plants (Kutno, Grodzisk Wielkopolski and Bielsk Podlaski).
Sources
27 July 2016: Puls HR
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Hoop Poland, Closure in Poland, factsheet number 88320, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88320.
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