Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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Danish-capital sock manufacturer Comfysocks Baltic is to dismiss 111 employees in Kaunas. The main cause of the dismissals is the bankruptcy of the company that was announced by the Authority of Audit, Accounting, Property Valuation and Insolvency Management under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania on 3 July 2020. The company is currently undergoing bankruptcy procedures and has already handed out layoff notices to all 111 employees. The bankruptcy was causes by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the management, most of employees are currently on down-time.
Earlier this year, the Lithuanian Clothing and Textile Association forecasted that about a third of textile companies may go bankrupt due to COVID-19 pandemic, and about a quarter of the 28,000 people working in the sector may lose their jobs.
Eurofound (2020), Comfysocks Baltic, Bankruptcy in Lithuania, factsheet number 101237, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/101237.