Site closure: Oettinger brewery declares itself - "We fought against it"
Created: 06/10/2022Updated: 06/10/2022 11:53 am
By: Patricia Huber
The Oettinger brewery is closing its location in Thuringia, causing horror.
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The well-known Oettinger brewery is closing its location in Thuringia.
This causes horror and sharp criticism in the union and in politics - but the company explains its actions.
Gotha – The Oettinger brewery produces beer and other beverages at four different locations.
Up to now, beer has been brewed in Oettingen, Mönchengladbach, Braunschweig and Gotha.
But in Gotha this should soon be over.
At the end of the year, the brewery will close its location in the Thuringian town of 45,000 inhabitants.
Oettinger Brewery: Only 24 employees are allowed to stay
The company, based in Oettingen in the Donau-Ries district, announced on Wednesday that parts of the production capacities and systems would be relocated to the three other brewery sites of the group of companies in Germany.
The brewery is reacting to the "negative development of the sales volume in the beer market in recent years and is repositioning itself for the future".
And what happens to the employees?
According to
MDR
reports, 196 Oettinger workers will lose their jobs.
Only 24 are allowed to stay.
For Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left), this decision is absurd.
He wrote on Twitter: "An unbelievable scandal.
A well-managed company, with over 220 good, collectively paid jobs, economically sound, in the black and on a reusable basis.
Now they want to generate more returns with Einweg;
destroy the company and also the environment.”
Oettinger Brewery: Union considers the closure to be incomprehensible
The union Food-Genuss-Gaststätten (NGG) also criticizes the plant closure, as reported by the
MDR
.
Since the Oettinger brewery is competitive, the closure is incomprehensible.
In addition, it is ecologically harmful to sell more beer in cans instead of returnable bottles.
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The Gotha district administrator Onno Eckert (SPD) also leaves no good hair on the decision.
According to the MDR
, he criticized the closure
as a blow to the stomach of the employees and the region.
This is particularly due to the fact that, according to Eckert, Oettinger is the largest beer taxpayer in Thuringia.
The politician calls on the brewery to quickly find an alternative solution and hand over the brewery to another partner.
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Oettinger Brewery: "We fought against the closure"
Oettinger himself explains that he has already tried everything possible.
“We fought against the closure with all sorts of measures.
But it was impossible to get the Gotha site into the black in recent years.
Nevertheless, the decision to partially close Gotha hurts us just as much as it does every single employee," the company said.
The location would simply no longer have been economical.
This is due to the very long delivery routes, poor logistics utilization and poor plant utilization in north-east and east Germany.
(ph/dpa)
