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Business Times reports that SABMiller’s new owner, Anheuser-Busch InBev, is recruiting again after a higher than expected number of former SABMiller managers took voluntary separation packages and left in January.
Richard Tadeu, Africa Zone president at AB InBev, said the company now needed to hire at least 100 new people as it planned new developments. “We are going to invest in two new production lines in South Africa. That will be announced in [the] future. So we’ll need people to run those lines,” Tadeu told Business Times on Friday. Of just more than 1,000 managers that SABMiller employed when AB InBev completed the takeover in October last year, 378 departed through the severance package as part of the company’s global cost cutting plans. The process only affected managers at headquarters, not operations. “At the end of the day we ended up with more people leaving that we ideally wanted. Now we’re in the process of rehiring some of the positions,” Tadeu said. The posts are required in the legal, corporate affairs and finance departments and include administration roles such as analysts. They are not limited to management positions.
- Read an extended summary of this report at SA Labour News
- Read the full report by Asha Speckman on page 1 of Sunday Times Business Times of 26 March 2017
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