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.
Požgaj, one of the biggest producers of wooden products in Croatia is to layoff 200 workers, primarily a sawn lumber factory in Veliki Bukovac, near the city of Varaždin.
The state company Hrvatske šume (Croatian Wood) announced that in 2021 it would not be able to sell enough wooden raw materials for Požgaj Group. Therefore, the company declared that it would close the part of its production. Layoffs will be completed by the end of April.
Požgaj Group includes a glued wooden panels factory, a parquet factory, a furniture factory and a wooden house factory. In total, they employ more than 550 employees in 6 factories at 4 locations throughout Croatia. About 90% of their finished products are exported to more than 25 markets throughout Europe and the whole world.
Eurofound (2021), Pozgaj, Internal restructuring in Croatia, factsheet number 104076, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/104076.
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