Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
The Polish beverage company Grupa Żywiec has announced it will be closing its brewery in Leżajsk. More than 100 people will lose their jobs at the closed plant.
The company's management issued a statement to the staff at the Leżajsk brewery about ending production on the site in June. The closure of the Leżajsk brewery, which has operated since 1978, is related to the reorganisation of Grupa Żywiec's production activities. The group will be focusing solely on beer production at its four remaining breweries located in Żywiec, Warka, Namysłów and Elbląg. The company will provide assistance in finding employment to some of the laid-off workers at the remaining breweries.
This is not the first case of liquidation of a Grupa Żywiec-owned brewery in the last three years period. In 2020, it sold Browar Zamkowy in Cieszyn, which had been in business for over 170 years.
Grupa Żywiec has been part of the Heineken corporation since 2004.
Eurofound (2023), Grupa Żywiec, Closure in Poland, factsheet number 108393, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/108393.
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