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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.20 - Processing and preserving of fish, crustaceans and molluscs
New offshoring locations
Poland
125 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 April 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
On Monday, 3 April 2017 the management of the fish group A. Espersen, informed the Cooperation Committee at the factory in Fredericia, Jutland that the production of processed food at the factory will be offshored to Poland. Consequently all 125 employees in production will be dismissed. Only 35 employee working in sales, procurement and product development will remain in Fredericia. According to A. Espersen a number of streamlining measures have not been effective enough to keep the production in Denmark.
Sources
4 April 2017: Avisen.dk
Citation
Eurofound (2017), A. Espersen, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Denmark, factsheet number 90973, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90973.
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