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Published in Food on 18-12-2020 Photo: pio3 / Shutterstock.com Coca-Cola is restructuring due to the coronavirus pandemic. The number of brands and business units is decreasing. The reorganisation will cost 2,200 employees their jobs.
Belgium badly affected The fall in sales during the corona pandemic is forcing Coca-Cola to restructure significantly: following the previous plan to voluntarily lay off 4 000 workers in the United States and Canada, there are now 2 200 more redundancies. In the United States, 1 200 jobs are being lost, some 12% of the entire workforce, but the remaining jobs are disappearing in international departments.
In Belgium, about half (95) of 191 jobs are lost. Nevertheless, the number of redundancies will be lower in reality, the soft drinks maker hopes, because there will also be new jobs for which current employees will be able to apply. Coca-Cola has branches in Anderlecht, Antwerp, Londerzeel, Hasselt and Heppign ....