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Nestl\u00e9 has started to roll out job cuts in Europe as part of the 16,000-cull announced by CEO Philipp Navratil in October.<\/p>\n
The Switzerland-headquartered group, the world\u2019s largest food and drinks maker, has confirmed the planned job cuts in the UK and France with Just Food<\/em> but has not yet clarified the numbers put forward by various media reports in Germany, Spain and Italy.<\/p>\n Taken together, the total impact is more than 1,400 so far across the five countries.<\/p>\n Navratil revealed in October<\/a> he planned to slash Nestl\u00e9\u2019s workforce after only taking the top job a month earlier. A veteran at the KitKat and Nescaf\u00e9 brand owner, he replaced another long-time Nestl\u00e9 stalwart Laurent Freixe, who left the business<\/a> after breaching code-of-conduct rules.<\/p>\n The job losses would be implemented over the next two years, including 12,000 white-collar workers across the group, and 4,000 in manufacturing,\u201d Navratil said at the time as part of a plan to increase annual savings to SFr1bn ($1.2bn) by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n In France, 180 positions will be chopped in R&D and \u201csupport functions\u201d, Nestl\u00e9 confirmed in what it described as a \u201ctense agri-food market marked by pressure on purchasing power, rising production costs and increased competition\u201d.<\/p>\n Its R&D facilities in Tours and Lisieux will be affected, Nestl\u00e9 said in a statement, adding the cuts \u201caim to simplify and digitise the organisation, strengthen agility and efficiency, and adapt structures to the evolution of the business portfolio, in order to gain competitiveness and support investments\u201d.<\/p>\n Nestl\u00e9 is now \u201centering an information and consultation phase with employee representatives\u201d in France as it seeks to \u201cgradually\u201d start the job cuts in 2027.<\/p>\n The company added the downsizing impact could be reduced to around 75 to 100 jobs based on current vacancies, newly created positions, transfers within the business and voluntary retirements.<\/p>\n For the UK, Nestl\u00e9 did not confirm the number of planned cuts or locations but the GMB union put the figure at \u201cmore than\u201d 450.<\/p>\n The union said in a statement the \u201cmajority\u201d of the UK jobs would go among \u201cstaff and managers\u201d at Nestl\u00e9 facilities in York and Gatwick, adding that GMB will work \u201cclosely with members and the company to ease the pain of these cuts as much as possible\u201d.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a Nestl\u00e9 spokesperson for the UK said: \u201cWe said in 2025 that we will reduce our global workforce by 16,000 roles and that process is ongoing.<\/p>\n \u201cAs always, we will manage any changes in the right way and in consultation with our people. Any proposed changes will always be shared with those affected first and we have no further update to give at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n In Germany and Spain, media reports suggested the cuts in those countries amount to around 300 each, with a further 185 in Italy.<\/p>\n A separate spokesperson at Nestl\u00e9’s HQ said: “The plans announced by several countries in Europe are part of the business transformation and workforce reduction communicated in October 2025. There are no further updates to share at this stage as consultation processes are still ongoing in many countries.”<\/p>\n “Nestl\u00e9 job cull begins in Europe under plan to eliminate 16,000 positions” was originally created and published by Just Food<\/a>, a GlobalData owned brand.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
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