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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.11 - Processing and preserving of meat
780 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
11 May 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
On May 2007, one of the largest and modern Ostrava-based meet processing plant was to cease the loss making production and to cancel 260 jobs from a total 780 (one third of the current workforce). The owner – Milkagro company- believed that a potential sale might avert imminent collapse. The main reason was the increasing meat import from abroad.
On 14 June 2007, the company declared bankruptcy and issued 213 redundancy notices.
Sources
11 May 2007: Hospodárske noviny
14 June 2007: Lidové Noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Masokombinát Martinov, Bankruptcy in Czechia, factsheet number 65326, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65326.
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