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.
Amer Sports Ro, a manufacturer of sports equipment part of the Finnish-Chinese group Amer Sports, is investing €6 million in a production hall on an area of 33,792 square meters in the Eurobusiness II Industrial Park in Oradea. The company announced that 200 new jobs will be created by the end of 2024.
The Finnish-Chinese Amer Sports Group has been producing boots in Romania for more than two decades. Initially, the group collaborated with the local company Chimsport, which owned a plant in Orastie (Hunedoara County), which worked under a lohn system with Amer Sports. Later, the international group took over the Orastie plant and started its own production in Romania.
Currently, the company has a workforce of 502 in Romania.
Globally, the company has a workforce of 10,800 employees and operates in 41 countries.
Eurofound (2024), Amer Sports Ro, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 200759, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/200759.
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