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 10.5 - Manufacture of dairy products
325 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
11 June 2014
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
30 June 2015
Description
Danone has announced a plan to close its sites at Casale Cremasco (Italy), Hagenow (Germany) and Budapest (Hungary) that will lead to the loss of 100 jobs in Italy, 70 in Germany and 155 in Hungary. The group explains that these three countries are particularly hard hit by the fall in sales in dairy products since 2010. "While European sales volumes now show signs of gradual improvement", adds the company management, "the group’s Fresh Dairy Products division in Europe has seen overall business fall back, with local cases of surplus capacity". The activities of these three plants will be shifted to Belgium, Poland, Germany and France. Danone intends to take social measures identifying job solutions for each of the employees who will be affected by the closures. This project will be fully implemented by mid-2015. The European Works Council of Danone and the International union UITA have denounced this decision. The EWC has decided to launch research into these closures. The group previously announced in February 2013 a plan to cut 900 positions across the company’s management and administration staff in 26 European countries by 2015 (See previous FS).
Sources
11 June 2014: Les Echos
11 June 2014: Danone (Press Release)
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Danone, Closure in European Union, factsheet number 77241, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77241.
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