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.
McDonald's, part of the McDonald's Corporation group, is an American multinational fast-food catering company, has a recruitment perspective of more than 5,000 people during 2022 and 12,000 people over the next three years throughout Italy.
In 2021, the company reported a 37% increase in turnover compared to 2020, confirming the positive sign for 2019 as well, for a value of over 400 million euros. A growth that translates into +20% investment in the food industry in Italy, where 60 new restaurants have been opened in the last two years and 5,000 people have been hired, with a target for the three-year period 2022-2025 of about 200 new openings. In Italy today there are 640 McDonald's restaurants.
As of today, the group's organisation is made up of 27,000 employees, 62% of whom are women, 55% young people under 29 years of age and 15% foreigners, all hired with stable contracts.
Eurofound (2022), McDonald's, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 106755, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/106755.
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