Tönnies to shift certain production of Tican to Germany and UK

German meat company Tönnies intends to move some of the production of its Danish unit Tican to Germany and the UK.

It plans to shift deboning operations from the facility in Thisted and bacon processing from Ansager in Denmark by 1 October.  The latter caters to the UK market.

The company took this decision to manufacture products at competitive prices.

Tican CEO Ove Thejls initially plans to shift the deboning operation from Thisted to Germany, and then to the UK in the long-term.

Thejls was quoted by Just-food.com as saying: "Employees and management have been struggling for years to maintain the activities in Denmark.

"Unfortunately, it has been associated with increasing difficulties, and other companies have already closed or moved deboning activities and bacon production to the UK or Germany.

"Through quite some time, we have considered the same solution and the change of ownership for Tican has now made it possible to carry out the plans due to existing capacity in other units in the Tönnies Group."

These plans will impact 80 jobs, of which around 55 are in Thisted and 25 in Ansager.