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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.11 - Processing and preserving of meat
320 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 January 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2018
Foreseen end date
31 May 2018
Description
Producer of meat and poultry products Animex has announced that it will close its production facility in Dębica. As a result, all 320 employees will be collectively dismissed in a redundancy programme which will be implemented between February and May 2018. The representative of the company revealed the unit is no longer profitable as it does not have its own slaughterhouse, and the equipment is technically outdated.
Animex was founded in 1951 as a state-owned enterprise. Currently the company is part of the Smithfield Group, a global food company.
Sources
20 January 2018: Strefa Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Animex, Closure in Poland, factsheet number 93139, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93139.
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