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The Heineken group announced Monday, November 14 its intention to close the bicentenary brewery of Schiltigheim, in the Bas-Rhin. An incomprehensible decision for the employees of the group.
The 220 employees of Heineken in Schiltigheim (Bas-Rhin) learned the news of the likely closure of the brewery in three years, Monday, November 14. “We were all in shock yesterday, and again, it’s hard to realize”says an employee. The breweryHope is a site that has become too dilapidated for the company, too isolated in the city and impossible to develop, not to mention the explosion in the energy bill. Employees could be relocated to the group’s factories in the North and in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône)
“They want to close theHopecapital of beer in Alsace, the first site to have brewed Heineken, a brewery of innovation and excellence that has twice won the prize for the best Heineken beer in the world. Strategically it doesn’t make sense”, launches Vania Brouillard, FO union representative. This would mark the end of a 250-year-old brewing tradition. In Schiltigheim there were ten family breweries at the start of the 20th century, all swallowed up over the years by Heineken.