Marklin

Type
Reshoring
Country
Germany
Reshoring from
China
Reshored business function
Production
Region
Baden-Württemberg; Stuttgart; Göppingen
Location of affected unit(s)
Göppingen
Sector
Manufacturing
(32) Other manufacturing
32.4 - Manufacture of games and toys
32.4 - Manufacture of games and toys
No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
24 January 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2014
Foreseen end date
1 December 2015

Description

Marklin is a German producer of toys, famous for producing toy locomotives. In recent years the company has aimed to save costs by adopting offshoring strategies to China. However, in 2014 and 2015 it invested in the German plant in Göppingen, in order to backshore production. Sources are not clear regarding the number of new jobs created through the backshoring. Moreover, sources do not clarify the exact motivations behind the backshoring, however a generic claim regarding access to higher quality goods has been cited. 

Sources

  • 26 August 2015: KPMG press release
  • 24 January 2015: NWZ

Citation

Eurofound (2015), Marklin, Reshoring in Germany, factsheet number 201, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/201.