date:Apr 17, 2013
,000 jobs in the first half of this year. Last year they shed 3,900, bringing the total number of jobs to 495,000.
Apart from Danone's plan, announced in February, to cut over 200 jobs in France, redundancies would mostly come in small- and medium-sized companies in the processed meat and ready meals sectors which have been hit hard by the horsemeat scandal, Buisson said.
Sales of ready meals have recovered slightly since horsemeat was found in beef-based dishes in mid-January, but were still