Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Arla Foods, a joint Danish-Sweden multinational dairy company, has closed its factory in Falkenberg, Sweden and thereby made 130 employees redundant. The closure is due to a centralization of the cheese production, which will be moved to Denmark.
Arla announced the restructuring in April 2011. The reason for the closure is hard competition and a need for more effective production, according to the management.
Previous restructuring cases at Arla are covered in factsheets 11088, 11175, 13737, 19272, 19837, 19742, 8115, 7110, 7030, 6357.
Arla Foods is a global dairy company and a co-operative owned by dairy farmers. The company has production facilities in 12 countries and sales offices in a further 30, with a total of more than 18,000 employees. Arla Foods was formed as the result of a merger between the Swedish dairy cooperative Arla and the Danish dairy company MD Foods on 17 April 2000. It is based in Århus.
Eurofound (2013), Arla Foods, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 75077, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/75077.
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