Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
The French construction group NGE has announced a regional recruitment campaign, with 100 new jobs announced in the Hauts-de-France region and 100 others created in Brittany and Pays-de-Loire, of which around ten immediately. Recruitments are scheduled to take place between now and 2024. The company is involved in several activities: earthworks, pipelines and networks, civil engineering, roads and road equipment, geotechnical and safety works and railway works.
The NGE Group has 13,000 employees and a turnover of €2.5 billion. Its workforce has increased by 57% over the last four years. NGE announced in November 2019 that it would be recruiting 10,000 people by 2024, without further details.
Eurofound (2020), NGE, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 102904, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/102904.
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