Danish Crown, the Denmark-based meat co-operative, has announced job cuts at a domestic abbatoir will not be as severe as it first announced.

In March, the company said it would reduce capacity at the site in Ringsted, a move it admitted was likely to affect 280 staff amid falling slaughter pig production in Denmark.

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However, Danish Crown said supplies had stabilised and it had been able to restore 110 jobs at the facility.

Before the announcement in March, the slaughter capacity at the Ringsted abbatoir was 54,000 pigs a week. Danish Crown had planned for that fugure to drop to 34,000 but it said it is now possible for the capacity to reach 45,000 pigs a week.

The co-op indicated Asia had been a factor in the decision, with 22 staff re-appointed to work in the part of the abbatoir serving Japan.

Soren Eriksen, Danish Crown's vice president of production, said: "For the first time in more than ten years we see stabilising of the slaughter pig production in Denmark."

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However, he added: "Unfortunately indications are that this is on the basis of a sad background. At the moment the price of pork is very low across Europe and therefore the price of weaners for export has also dropped dramatically. It is our experience that some of the producers of piglets as a consequence of low prices choose to keep the weaners and fatten them as this is the least poor solution to them right now."

Eriksen, meanwhile, is set to take a new role at Danish Crown. Last week, the co-operative announced changes to the way it structures its fresh pork business.

The division is being split into four business areas. Eriksen was named CEO of a the business-to-business arm.

The heads of each unit will report into Danish Crown CEO Kjeld Johanesen, who is also CEO of the co-op's fresh meat business.

Danish Crown said the revamp would lead to "even better synergies".

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