Experts: Danish Crown's deeper problem is farmer profitability, not cost-cutting
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Jesper Olesen
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Danish Crown, the Danish pork cooperative, is cutting 800 management and staff positions as part of a transformation led by CEO Niels Ulrich Duedahl. However, experts and the chairman of the pig producers' association argue that the company's deeper challenge is not cost-cutting but ensuring profitability for the farmers who own the cooperative. The article suggests that Danish Crown's fundamental problems go beyond operational expenses.
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Danish Crown sparer 800 stillinger væk, men ifølge formanden for svineproducenterne er den største udfordring helt akut at sikre lønsomhed hos de landmænd, der ejer koncernen.
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