DANISH CROWN STRAINS RELATIONS WITH DENMARK GOVERNMENT WITH OVERSEAS EXPANSION PLANS
May 10th, 2014
DANISH Crown’s decision to locate capacity-based facility investments outside Denmark carries the risk of straining relations with the government in Copenhagen when the company continues to solicit state measures to reduce operating costs at local plants. The meat company’s group-wide cost-reduction plan calls for a cost efficiency review and re-organisation of factory capacity in Denmark. This has angered the government, particularly Danish Crown’s plan to expand pig slaughtering in Germany and Poland, where labour and plant costs are lower."At the ...
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