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Labor Restructuring: Up to 301 Layoffs at Multinational's Spanish Subsidiary

The company has announced an Employment Regulation File that will affect various areas and six production centers, including factories in Girona and Reus.

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Generic image of coins and a downward-trending graph, with blurred industrial machinery in the background, symbolizing economic restructuring.

A major multinational in the food sector has confirmed an Employment Regulation File (ERE) that could affect up to 301 jobs in Spain, including its facilities in Girona and Reus, following an exhaustive analysis of its operational structures.

The company has announced that, after a detailed analysis of its operational structures and the implementation of prior cost-containment measures, the workforce adjustment will affect a maximum of 301 positions. This restructuring will impact offices, sales teams, distribution centers, and six of its production centers in the country. The exact number of affected workers per center will be made public in early May.
This decision comes after the Swiss multinational announced a global workforce reduction in mid-October last year, affecting 16,000 employees over the next two years, nearly 6% of its worldwide staff. Now, the company has specified that, in Spain, this restructuring will result in a maximum of 301 layoffs. Currently, the workforce in Spain totals 4,158 people.
In addition to employees at the headquarters in Esplugues, and the coffee factories the company operates in Girona and Reus, the ERE will extend to plants in Pontecesures (Pontevedra), Sebares (Asturias), La Penilla (Cantabria), and Miajadas (Cáceres).
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"We consider this massive job cut to be unjustified, disproportionate, and socially unacceptable, especially in the context of a company that maintains a global leadership position in the food sector and continues to generate multi-million dollar profits."

the UGT union
Unions have expressed their rejection of the job cuts. CCOO, which holds the union majority in the group, has mobilized its resources to defend jobs and has denounced that the Spanish subsidiary is the one "suffering the most" among the affected countries. They have pointed out the paradox of proposing cuts after strong economic results, recalling that the company achieved a historic turnover record of 2.894 million euros in 2025, insisting that its financial outlook is "positive" and "solid".
For its part, the UGT union, which holds the majority on the works council of the coffee factory in Girona, has also opposed the layoff process. The UGT union section at the Girona plant has stated that this is not a company in crisis, but a "highly profitable" organization that has chosen to transfer the cost of its strategy to its workforce. Therefore, they demand that the company's management in Spain withdraw the collective layoff plan and develop an alternative based on internal reorganization without job destruction.

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