![]() ![]() Lactalis says hiring is still challenging in engineering, manufacturing and other technical areas, but the company is confident it can continue bring in employees from firms that have decided to leave the city.Ĭotter also touted the company’s locations in a trendy neighbourhood close to multiple commuter rail lines as enticements to lure talent. Lactalis Heritage Dairy represents 39% of the group’s total US business. Lactalis, founded in 1933 and known for its President cheese, is now hiring to build out those areas and expects to have about 220 employees in its Chicago offices by the end of the year, bringing the division’s total workforce to 850. Lactalis agreed to buy Kraft’s natural cheese business in 2020 and has since then completed the first phase of separation, which included sales, marketing, human resources, the commercial area and manufacturing, Cotter said.Ī transition agreement for the supply chain and finance systems will end in March, he said. “The absolute growth opportunity that exists I think makes it the perfect growth market.” “The United States is obviously a much bigger country from a land-based standpoint than France is,” Cotter said during an interview at the firm’s office in Chicago’s West Loop neighbourhood. The little known, secretive French dairy giant has in recent years been growing its business in the United States, which is now its second-largest market. The expansion comes as Lactalis prepares to separate its supply chain and finance systems as part of the integration of Kraft brands including Cracker Barrel and Knudsen. The family-owned company plans to hire almost 100 people at its offices in the Windy City over the next year, according to Peter Cotter, chief executive officer of Lactalis Heritage Dairy – the business that runs the natural cheese brands bought from Kraft. But too many nurses are leaving the profession and not enough is being done to retain them once they are on the job, she said.NEW YORK: The world’s largest dairy maker, France’s Groupe Lactalis, is expanding in Chicago after a US$3.2bil (RM14.9bil) deal to acquire cheese brands from Kraft Heinz Co. While the shifts are relatively small, they temper the gains made in the overall number of nurses working in the province, according to the report.ĭoris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, said the report highlights the fact that many people want to enter the nursing work force. On top of that, the proportion of nurses who are taking leaves of absence or moving outside the province has risen from 3.3 per cent in 2016 to 4.6 per cent in 2020 to 5.8 per cent in 2023. The college has changed some of its rules to make it easier for IENs to start working in Ontario in response to a shortage of health workers that has led to delays and emergency room closures, among other problems, across the country.īut the proportion of actively working nurses has declined in recent years, going from 90.6 per cent in 2020 at the start of the pandemic to 88.9 per cent in 2023. New registrations by internationally educated nurses (IENs) are helping drive the general upward trend, according to the report. ![]()
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