The Greenery announced on Friday that due to the planned closure of the import DC in Barendrecht, The Netherlands - set for mid 2016 - 6 jobs will be lost. 32 new ones will be created that the employees can apply for. This is the third round of redundancies in two years. In 2014 The Greenery cut 350 out of 1400 jobs. At the start of this year 60 followed. "We knew the DC was ageing and costing money. This is why we decided to close the DC and combine the streams in a new DC, which made some positions unnecessary," says a spokesperson. This should be the end of the wave of redundancies, he says.
Previously, in the Primeur magazine, director Ton Wortel spoke on the reorganisation: "You continually have to look at optimisation of processes and how you can define yourself in the core activity. This means that you might have to say goodbye to one or more parts of the company. At the same time we are trying to grow and tie more volume to ourselves. This creates job opportunities. The strong restructuring is now done, but under the condition that we can keep our members and so not to lose anymore volumes."