2023-10-13 18:50:40
Nestlé will restructure its production site in Wangen (SO), and eliminate around 90 jobs there during the first half of 2024. The factory located near Olten employs 200 people and specializes in making fresh dough.
Production in Wangen will in future focus on the Leisi and Buitoni brands, owned by Nestlé, for the European market, a press release said on Friday. Other activities will cease. This “reorientation project” will require an investment of 6.5 million francs, in order to “modernize” and “automate” the installations at the Solothurn site.
The factory exports a large part of its production to European countries. Recently, conditions have changed in target markets and volumes have declined, explained a spokeswoman for Nestlé Switzerland. The Vevey giant has therefore decided to focus its production on its own brands, for Switzerland and Europe.
Planned social plan
The announcement of job cuts in Wangen does not presage restructuring at other sites in Switzerland, according to the spokesperson. Nestlé operates nine factories in Switzerland and employs 8,400 people. The Wangen site is the only one in Europe to produce fresh dough. It has already been subject to staff cuts in the past.
Regarding the restructuring, the consultation period will end in four weeks. The personnel committee of the Wangen factory must comment on the measures and make proposals before this deadline. A social plan is planned.
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