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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.31 - Processing and preserving of potatoes
120 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 January 2015
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Potato processor McCain is closing its production site in Grobbendonk. As a consequence of a new centralizing plan, the production will be relocated to a site in Leuze-en-Hainaut. Higher costs at Grobbendonk and the inability to expand the older facility which is in a residential area were cited as reasons for the closure. A Loi Renault collective redundancy procedure has been initiated in respect of 120 workers, of which 90 are blue-collar, production workers. White collar workers without a link to the production department will continue working in Grobbendonk.
Sources
16 January 2015: De Redactie
16 January 2015: De Standaard
Citation
Eurofound (2015), McCain, Relocation in Belgium, factsheet number 78179, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78179.
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