The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.92 - Manufacture of prepared pet foods
New offshoring locations
Germany
150 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
9 December 2019
Employment effect (start)
9 December 2019
Foreseen end date
31 January 2020
Description
Rondo Food, a pet food manufacturer, is shutting down its operation in Arklow, Wicklow, causing 150 redundancies by the end of January 2020. The staff has been offered a severance payment of an additional half a week pay above the statutory entitlement of two weeks' pay per year of service. The Rondo workers are not represented by a trade union. The German-owned company moves production to north-west Germany. The management of the company stated that the reason for offshoring is an unsatisfactory economic and market position.
Rondo Food took over from Gaines in 2011 and had invested €6 million in the Arklow plant since that year.
Eurofound (2019), Rondo Food, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Ireland, factsheet number 99333, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99333.
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