Danish Crown has announced it will be cutting around 800 jobs as it brings in a new organisational structure.
The major pork supplier said it was undergoing a comprehensive transformation aimed at strengthening the company’s position in the global food market.
The business will consolidate a number of central group functions, moving away from “its previous conglomerate structure”.
As a result, there will be a reduction of around 800 positions across the organisation over the next two to three years, largely impacting managers and white collar employees, the business said.
“By consolidating functions at group level, we can leverage our scale better, work more consistently across the organisation and create a more efficient operation,” said group CEO Niels Ulrich Duedahl. “Instead of doing things differently depending on which country you are based in, we need shared standards, systems, and targets.
“Over the next two to three years, this means fewer management layers and fewer employees.”
The transformation is expected to generate efficiency improvements of approximately DKK 500m (£57.7m) over the next two to three years.
Danish Crown currently consists of eight business units: Industry, Foods, Beef, UK, KLS, Sokolow, ESS-FOOD and DAT-Schaub.
It said workforce adjustments will take place gradually with local consultation processes expected to begin in early June.
“We need to normalise Danish Crown fundamentally, so we resemble other international companies in our industry,” he added. “Today, our business units largely operate as independent companies.
“We are changing that by bringing our businesses closer together. We need to operate as one fully integrated group across business areas and across countries.”
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