After the dairy factory Meggle Croatia announced that it would shut down its production in Osijek by the end of the year, which would lead to the layoff of around 160 workers, the Croatian media reported that the production would be moved to Serbia and BiH.

The prefect of Slavonia, Ivan Anusic, says that the press release issued by the company on Thursday does not feature any info about the production moving to Bihac and Kragujevac.

– The reasons are very simple: cheaper operations and possible simpler way of functioning. At the moment, I dont have this information, but I assume that thats what this is about, considering that the production is moving to those two countries – said Ivan Anusic, as reported by SeeBiz.

Meggles press release says that the decision on the restructuring of the operation in Croatia and the shutting down of the production in Osijek was reached due to years of business challenges and crises which had a negative impact on the operations, from the aflatoxin crisis, through the Agrokor crisis, to the latest coronavirus crisis.

The press release says that the Meggle Group, headquartered in Germany, is carrying out a process of optimization of operations, to the end of setting up long-term sustainable operation models in all markets.

It is added that, in line with the decision on shutting down the production, Meggle will terminate cooperation with its subcontractors and suppliers in Croatia. The press release also announces that all the contract obligations towards them will be fulfilled in total and on time, as always.

The company reminds that, in the past 15 years, Meggle Group has invested more than 130 million kunas (EUR 17.2 million) in the production and the operations in Croatia. Meggle has been operating in Croatia since 1996.

Nakon što je fabrika mlečnih proizvoda Megle (Meggle) Hrvatska saopštila da će do kraja godine ugasiti proizvodnju u Osijeku, pri čemu će otkaz dobiti oko 160 radnika, u hrvatskim medijima se pojavila informacija da će proizvodnja biti premeštena u Srbiju i BiH.

Župan Slavonije Ivan Anušić kaže da je u saopštenju koje je kompanija izdala u četvrtak izostavljena informacija da se proizvodnja seli u Bihać i Kragujevac.

- "Razlozi su vrlo jednostavni: jevtiniji način poslovanja i možda jednostavniji način funkcionisanja. U ovom trenutku te informacije nemam, ali pretpostavljam, s obzirom na to da se proizvodnja seli u te dve zemlje, da je to to - rekao je Ivan Anušić, prenosi SeeBiz.

U saopštenju kompanije Megle navedeno je da je odluka o restrukturiranju poslovanja u Hrvatskoj i gašenju proizvodnje u Osijeku do kraja godine doneta zbog dugogodišnjih poslovnih izazova i niza kriza koje su imale negativan uticaj na poslovanje, od krize aflatoksina, preko krize Agrokora, do najnovije koronakrize.

U saopštenju se navodi da Megle grupa sa sedištem u Nemačkoj sprovodi proces optimizacije celokupnog poslovanja, s ciljem postavljanja dugoročno održivih modela poslovanja na svim tržištima.

Dodaje se da će Megle u skladu sa odlukom o gašenju proizvodnje raskinuti saradnju sa svojim kooperantima i dobavljačima sirovina u Hrvatskoj i najavljuje da će sve svoje ugovorne obaveze prema njima kao i do sada pravovremeno i u celosti ispuniti.

Iz kompanije podsećaju da je u proizvodnju i poslovanje u Hrvatskoj Megle grupa u poslednjih 15 godina uložila više od 130 miliona kuna (17,2 mil EUR) Megle u Hrvatskoj posluje od 1996. godine.