Atria Oyj - Company Announcement

Atria Finland to boost beef and pork production efficiency at the Jyväskylä plant

Seinäjoki, Finland, 2014-02-24 11:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atria Plc, Company
Announcement, 24 February 2014, at 12:00 a.m. 

Atria Finland to boost beef and pork production efficiency at the Jyväskylä
plant 

Atria has decided to launch a development project in order to improve Atria
Finland's beef and pork production profitability and to increase efficiency at
Atria's Jyväskylä plant. The project will clarify Atria's currently overlapping
functions, the development areas for the Jyväskylä production plant and the
synergies with Atria's functions. Personnel negotiations concerning the content
of the development project will begin immediately. 

Atria estimates that removing overlapping functions and improving efficiency
will result in annual savings of about EUR 5 million, which would be realised
from the beginning of 2015. This would mean a reduction of about 60 man-years. 

In February 2014, Atria purchased Saarioinen's procurement, slaughtering and
cutting operations for beef, pork and chicken. The recently launched
development measures concern beef and pork procurement and industrial
operations at the Jyväskylä production plant. 

For further information, please contact Mika Ala-Fossi, Managing Director,
Atria Finland, tel. +358 40 831 0342. 


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CEO


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