Brewing Giant to Slash Thousands of Jobs Amid Sluggish Sales, Tech Push

The world’s second-largest brewer says it plans to combat a sluggish beer market by using technology to make its operations more efficient — and, in turn, slash thousands of jobs.Heineken, which announced its latest financial results Wednesday, said that it expects to cut between 5,000 and 6,000 jobs over the next two years — amounting to up to 7% of the Dutch brewer’s global workforce. Most Read on IEN Company officials indicated that some of the cuts would stem from previously announced cost-cutting effo ...