Fonterra to lay off up to 110 staff at Waikato packing facility

Fonterra to lay off up to 110 staff at Waikato packing facility
By Paul McBeth July 23 (BusinessDesk) - Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, may lay off a third of its workers at the Canpac packing facility in Waikato, which it plans to focus on paediatric nutritional products. The Auckland-based company will scale back operations at the plant to five-days-a-week from its current seven days, and may cut 110 of the 330 staff employed at the site, after volumes at the plant were reduced, it said in a statement. It will look to fill jobs at other sites with affected staff, it s...