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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10 - Manufacture of food products
140 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 January 2015
Employment effect (start)
25 January 2015
Foreseen end date
31 July 2015
Description
On 25 January 2015, the press reported that meat processing company Nölke will cut 140 jobs at its factory in Waren (Müritz). The company will close the factory at the end of July 2015. Nölke is a meat processing company, headquartered in Versmold (North Rhine-Westphalia).
The factory in Waren is one of the biggest meat factories of Nölke in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In December 2014, the company announced it would sell factories to the Zur-Mühlen-Group (Böklund / Schleswig - Holstein). With an annual turnover of around 21 million euros, Nölke produces approximately 5,200 tons of meat products per year.
Sources
25 January 2015: SVZ Online
27 January 2015: Westfalen-Blatt
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Nölke, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 78234, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78234.
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