Overview
- Mondelez will stop output at its General Pacheco plant from December 14 to January 5, affecting roughly 2,300 employees through a plan of paid vacations, additional licenses and maintenance work.
- Union leaders say they secured income protections, including a 525,000‑peso year‑end bonus to be paid December 11, while the company frames the pause as operational planning to sustain the business.
- Sales volumes at Mondelez are reported down by about 13,000–15,000 tons this year, with full warehouses and slower reorders in galletitas, chocolates and alfajores.
- Georgalos has begun rotating 15‑day suspensions at its Victoria plant in batches of about 80 workers, covering around 600 employees who receive roughly 75–80% of normal pay.
- Both companies cite collapsed consumption and more competitive imports—particularly from Brazil—within a wider sector contraction marked by firm closures and industrial job losses.