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 10.11 - Processing and preserving of meat
450 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
31 March 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2008
Foreseen end date
1 July 2008
Description
Danish Crown, a Danish multinational abbatoir, has announced that it is to cut 450 jobs by closing the abbatoir in Skive employing 300 and the deboning facilities in Hurup (Northern Jutland) employing another 150. The two departments are expected to be closed down in June 2008. The employees' representative, the union NNF and Danish Crown have in common set up a job bank to help redundant employees to find new jobs within Danish Crown's other abbatoirs or other companies.
Sources
1 April 2008: Politiken; nnf.dk
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Danish Crown, Closure in Denmark, factsheet number 66461, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66461.
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