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Coca-Cola throws traditional brand out of the stores - in Germany hundreds of jobs on the cross-off list

2020-10-11T18:15:45.673Z


Coca-Cola is cutting hundreds of jobs in Germany. A well-known brand that will soon no longer be available in supermarkets also falls victim to the move.


Coca-Cola is cutting hundreds of jobs in Germany.

A well-known brand that will soon no longer be available in supermarkets also falls victim to the move.

  • Coca-Cola wants to downsize or close locations in Germany.

  • So many employees have to leave.

  • A well-known brand of the group will soon also no longer be on supermarket shelves.

Berlin - The

beverage company Coca-Cola

wants to

downsize or even close

some locations in

Germany

.

This also affects the range of the group, which includes many well-known brands.

Around

485 jobs

are to be cut in Germany, as reported by the

German Press Agency (dpa)

.

According to this, the

Coca-Cola bottling plant in Liederbach near Frankfurt is to be

closed.

There are currently around 250 employees there.

The company is looking for the Sodenthaler Mineralbrunnen in Sulzbach near Aschaffenburg

a buyer.

Coca-Cola brand Apollinaris falls victim to austerity program

In Bad Neuenahr in Rhineland-Palatinate, 80 employees are to

leave

Coca-Cola

.

The

austerity program

has an impact on the

Apollinaris

water

brand that is produced there.

Coca-Cola

only wants the Apollinaris brand for

gastronomy in the

future

produce, as the group itself reports.

For

consumers

, this means:

The brand will no longer be found in the supermarket from March 2021

.

Coca-Cola

employs around 7500 people in Germany and is the

largest beverage manufacturer in the country

.

However, one wants to avoid operational layoffs, emphasizes the group.

Union outraged by Coca-Cola's plans: "Pure greed"

However,

Coca-Cola received

outrage for the plan

from the

food-pleasure-restaurants

union

(NGG).

"Coca-Cola in Germany is still in the black!", Declared the Southwest state chairman Uwe Hildebrandt according to the

dpa

.

Closing locations despite the profits is not acting responsibly towards employees.

"That is pure greed for profit," said Hildebrandt.

The

Union wants

to fight for every job

.

Coca-Cola is also imposing drastic austerity programs in the USA

But not only Germany is affected

by

job cuts at Coca-Cola

.

He also

wants to go

to the

USA

and

Canada

Group cut

thousands of jobs

.

And according to its own statements, it relies primarily on the voluntary nature of the employees.

The

corona crisis

let the net profit of the group collapse in the second quarter of this year alone by almost a third to 1.8 billion dollars.

Source: merkur

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