Netherlands-based dairy processor FrieslandCampina is to close two plants in its domestic market as it adjusts to a challenging European market.
The sites in Eindhoven and Woerden will shut in 2015 amid the company’s moves to restructure the Dutch production and distribution of fresh dairy products.
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Production of fresh dairy at Eindhoven, which employs 142 people, will be shifted to plants in Rotterdam and Maasdam in mid-2015.
Meanwhile, fresh dairy distribution will be transferred from Woerden, where 58 staff work, to Maasdam in two years’ time.
The moves will also mean 15 production jobs and 18 distribution jobs will be lost in Maasdam in the course of 2015. Jobs will also be axed in Limmen, Drachten and Rotterdam. However, 72 jobs will be created at a new distribution centre in Maasdam. On balance, 174 posts will be axed in the restructuring.
FrieslandCampina said it wanted to improve efficiency in a European market that was “under pressure”. It insisted it plans to up the pace of its innovation.
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By GlobalDataBas van den Berg, MD of FrieslandCampina’s branded business in the Netherlands and Belgium, said: “We want to lower costs and at the same time invest in our brands for our home market in Europe. Unfortunately, this plan has consequences for a number of our employees.”
