France’s Savencia Fromage & Dairy is planning to close a domestic facility in 2022 with 83 permanent staff and 20 temporary workers set to lose their jobs, according to a local trade union.
The union that represents workers at the site, told the move has been made because the site is not profitable, has said it deplores the decision.
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The plant, in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines in central France, makes speciality cheese and walnut products under the Rambol brand.
Jean-Pierre Seno, a Savencia group coordinator for the FGTA-FO union, told just-food: “Today Savencia wants to increase its profitability and that means closing unprofitable sites.”
Seno, who said he had learnt of the closure after a meeting with officials at the factory on 16 September, added: “We deplore the way of making these redundancies and we remain vigilant so that our colleagues can negotiate with PES [the regional employment authority] under the best conditions with the support of our federation.”
just-food has asked Savencia for further information on the closure plan.
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By GlobalDataIn January, Savencia announced it was closing a cheese facility in Saint-Saviol in western France after a plan to sell it to US firm Schreiber Foods fell through.
