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 10.1 - Processing and preserving of meat and production of meat products
200 - 280 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 January 2011
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 March 2011
Description
On 17 January 2011, Animex, a meat product producer, announced plans to close a poultry slaughterhouse line in its unit in D?bica. From 200 to 280 jobs will be lost due to the closure of the slaughterhouse line. The company will implement the collective dismissal programme by the end of March 2011. Andrzej Pawelczak, a public relations officer of Animex, said the dismissals will be consulted with trade unions and some of the redundant workers might be hired in company's unit in Opole (factsheet id :17201).
The company was founded in 1951 as a state-owned enterprise, but in 1999 it became a part of Smithfiled Group, a global food company. Animex also cooperates with the Poviat Employment Agency.
Sources
17 January 2011: Moje Miasto ()
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Animex, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 71625, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71625.
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