Danish Crown Pork

Type
Internal restructuring
Country
Denmark
Region
Danmark; Midtjylland; Østjylland
Location of affected unit(s)
Horsens
Sector
Manufacturing
(10 - 11) Manufacture of food and beverage
10.1 - Processing and preserving of meat and production of meat products
10.11 - Processing and preserving of meat, except of poultry meat
175 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
28 June 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2019
Foreseen end date

Description

The Danish multinational producer of pork meat Danish Crown announced that it will dismiss 175 employees at the slaughterhouse in Horsens. Although pig meat prices are currently record high, Danish pig producers send fewer pigs for slaughtering. The company explains that some members of the cooperative that owns Danish Crown (DC), in continuation of the drought last summer, have stopped growing piglets to avoid buying expensive feed. At the same time, the export of Danish piglets sent for fattening and slaughtering primarily in Germany and Poland continued to increase. The result is that fewer pigs are sent to Danish slaughterhouses.

The management of DC will now start the mandatory discussions with the slaughterhouse workers union, NNF, about how to mitigate the effects of the redundancies.

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2019), Danish Crown Pork, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 98069, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/98069.