Dairy Verónica in the Dock: With Millionaire Debts, Unpaid Wages, and Almost No Milk to Process, the Company Requested

Published Jul 18, 2025

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More than seven years of crisis continue to develop at Lácteos Verónica. However, this extensive situation began to become more complex in March and has over 700 workers on edge, spread across plants in Suardi, Lehmann, and Clason, in the province of Santa Fe, as well as offices in Buenos Aires. The crisis now has a turning point.

On Thursday, the staggered payment of May salaries for all personnel was completed, just to pave the way for clarifying an exceptionally deteriorating situation, which in addition to the debt of June wages and the mid-year bonus, includes pending social security contributions.

Meanwhile, other debts continue to grow, with more than 2,000 million pesos in rejected checks given to dairy farmers, with an accumulated debt of 8,000 million pesos owed to different financial entities, according to the Central Bank.

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More than seven years of crisis continue to develop at Lácteos Verónica. Nevertheless, this extensive situation began to become more complex in March and has more than 700 workers on edge, distributed across plants in Suardi, Lehmann, and Clason, in the province of Santa Fe, in addition to offices in Buenos Aires. The crisis now has a turning point. On Thursday, the installment payment of May's salary for all personnel was completed, just to pave the way for clarifying an exceptional deterioration situation, which in addition to the June salary debt and half-year bonus, includes pending social security contributions. Meanwhile, other debts continue to grow, with more than 2,000 million pesos in rejected checks delivered to dairy farmers, with an accumulated 8,000 million pesos owed to different financial entities, according to the Central Bank. Currently, with the application of a four-hour labor debit per shift among workers, raw material processing is around 40,000 daily liters, ...

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