FINLAND’S ATRIA TACKLING OPERATING COSTS’ BASE

Finland’s Atria is pushing ahead with plans to reduce its cost base in the face of lower revenues that are mainly being generated due to lost meat trade with Russia, following European Union (EU) and Russian tit-for-tat sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. In a bid to gain tighter control of costs, the Finnish meat producer and exporter has engaged in talks with unions that are expected to lead both redundancies and changes in working hours at its biggest plants.The company has already agreed a cost-reduction deal with unions at its meat processing facility in ...


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