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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Beverages 11.07 - Manufacture of soft drinks; production of mineral waters and other bottled waters
New offshoring locations
Albania
151 - 350 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 January 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 November 2020
Foreseen end date
Description
Sibeg, a company that bottles Coca-Cola branded drinks in Italy, announced at least 151 dismissals at its Catania plant which will be taking place from October 2020 to spring 2021.
The decision is connected to raising prices of soft drinks and to the expected reduction in turnover linked to the government's decision to introduce a plastic and sugar tax in the budgetary law.
The company also ventilated the possibility that the Italian production facility will be closed down altogether and the whole production be moved to Albania.
Eurofound (2020), Sibeg, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Italy, factsheet number 99750, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99750.
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