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.