Sactwu puts boot into AVI
With 336 jobs on the line, the union wants authorities to revoke the merger allowing Green Cross into the AVI fold
30 May 2019 - 05:00
It took food and clothing company AVI just seven years to bring a 44-year-old Cape-based shoe manufacturer to the verge of collapse. Weeks before the 2018 year-end holidays, 336 employees of shoe manufacturer Green Cross were simply told that an in-principle decision had been made to "import all products".
JSE-listed AVI, which owns a portfolio of branded consumer goods including Five Roses tea, Provita biscuits and footwear outfit Spitz, says it had no choice...
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