Alliance Healthcare Repartition

Type
Closure
Country
France
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Angoulême, Auray, Auxerre, Niort, Pau
Sector
Wholesale / Retail
46 - Wholesale trade
46.4 - Wholesale of household goods
46.46 - Wholesale of pharmaceutical and medical goods
100 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
31 March 2023
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2023
Foreseen end date
31 December 2023

Description

Alliance Healthcare Répartition (AHR), Europe's leading pharmaceutical distribution and healthcare products wholesaler, has announced a reorganisation of its sites in France, with the closure of 5 out of 45 centres and the loss of around 100 jobs. The Auray, Angoulême, Auxerre, Niort and Pau sites are affected.

The company has been taken over by drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen in 2021. AHR has 45 sites in France and employs 2,000 people. Accompanying measures are being negotiated.

A previous reorganisation has been recorded in the ERM Databanse with 250 job losses in 2019 (FR-Alliance-Healthcare-Répartition-2019)

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2023), Alliance Healthcare Repartition, Closure in France, factsheet number 109136, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/109136.