- Tobačna Ljublana - CSR monitoring
Tobačna Ljubljana was established in 1871. In 1991 a share of company bought Reetsma Cigarettenfabrik GmbH from Hamburg and Seita, Societe nationale d?Exploitation Indusrielle des Tabacs et Alumettes from Paris. In 1999 Reetsma took over the Seita?s share and became 76% owner of Tobačna Ljubljana. In 2002 Imperial Tobacco bought 90% share of Reetsma. By the time of entering Slovenia in EU in 2004 the new customs regime caused the situation, that the production of cigarettes and tobacco products would not be further profitable. Imperial Tobacco closed down the factory and 260 workers lost their jobs.
The intentions of Imperial Tobacco were presented to workers and public "over the night" and Imperial Tobacco did not respect some obligations from workers participation law and labour law. The intention of Imperial Tobacco was realized without any consequences.
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- Sofegi filtration - CSR monitoring
The company is a part of the similar factory Donit, which began with work in Medvode in 1946. In the year 1957 the factory began with the production of the filters for cars. In the year 1986 there were over 2000 workers. While the market for the products were former Yugoslav republics, in the 1991, when Slovenia became independent republic, the major crisis came. In the 1997 the French company Filtrauto bought Donit. In the same time, the new production object was building on the new location (this is the object of the case). The local community was contacted in the beginning of building and there were some kind of agreement of the local people for the new object.
Company had and still has bad environmental influence with this auto filter production, because in the specific phase of production it is necessary to harden the filter paper with phenol pitch at high temperature. As side product the phenol gas is emitted in the air, which is poisoned.
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