French cooked meats firm Jean Caby is to axe 80 posts at its Brittany plant in a cost-cutting move.
The plant is based in Lampaul-Guimiliau and employs 600 staff. It is located next to pork processing facility owned by French group Gad, which will close as part of plans to rescue that company.
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A spokesperson for Jean Caby told just-food the redundancies were part of ongoing reorganisation plans. Around 70 jobs concern deboning activities carried out by temporary workers.
“It’s more bad news for Brittany’s pork sector. Margins for cooked ham are very poor with only retailers managing to get any kind of return and the cutbacks at Jean Gaby reflect this,” the spokesperson said.
Jean Caby has three production sites in France. The Lampaul-Guimiliau plant is the biggest.
Today, between 200 and 300 workers from Gad, poultry firms Doux and Tilly-Sabco and salmon firm Marine Harvest, blocked the entrance to Brest airport in protest at the job cuts that have hit Brittany’s food industry of late.
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