Meat Processor Hilckmann Nijmegen and Slaughterhouse will unexpectedly close. The measure more than 350 employees will lose their jobs whose nearly 110 permanent employees.
The management of the two related to each other companies have employees Wednesday informed about the closure. Bank ABN Amro lending stop put to the meat processor, which threatened bankruptcy.
Social plan
to avoid bankruptcy, the family business closes its doors this week. Friday will be held the last slaughter. There is with the works council of the company drew up a social plan.
Hilckmann focuses on the slaughter of pigs and cattle. The company is struggling for some time with rising losses, according to recent reports. In the period 2010-2013, there was still evidence of a net loss. In 2013 sales amounted to € 173 million
the slaughterhouse of Hilckmann firm at Waalhaven in Nijmegen. photo: HH
Export to China
The predicament is related to marketing problems in China. Gelderland company has no export license for that country. Long time could take flesh be delivered via Hong Kong, but that route has been cut off which has been lost an important market.
“We are been this busy since 2009, we are kept in suspense, “said a spokesman for Omroep Gelderland. “The reason would be that there are two kinds of animals slaughtered here. We are not on a list, which is necessary for export.
Hilckmann one of the larger independent slaughterhouses in the Netherlands . The top five is led by Vion Food in Boxtel. The meat industry has for years difficult: there is structural overcapacity which margins are under pressure. Vion Food also ran into serious financial problems, but after the divestment and closure of slaughterhouses improved results.
Move
Hilckmann and Slaughterhouse Nijmegen were busy with a move to the Brabant Haps. The slaughterhouse at Waalhaven was an obstacle for housing developments along the Waalfront in Nijmegen. The city of Nijmegen had therefore bought the land from the meat companies totaling € 25 million.
The family business began in 1970 with the pig slaughter. Eventually Hilckmann had a slaughtering capacity of 25,000 pigs and a further 1200 cattle per week. Every year the company processes more than a million pigs.
Family Business
De is being established by Dominique (43) and Katheline (37) Hilckmann. Ten years ago they followed their father Franz Hilckmann. The company would probably still come Thursday with a statement on the forced closure.
For the Dutch Union of Pig (NVV), the conclusion of Hilckmann a complete surprise. The trade association will investigate to whom the pig farmers must now deliver their pigs. It looks at some slaughterhouses cushion the closure of Hilckmann.
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