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.
Bartter S.A., a Polish energy company, has opened a new transhipment terminal in Sokolka, which employs 100 people.
The new investment is expected to result in more efficient distribution of goods coming from the East (China, Central Asia, Lithuania, Latvia) to the Western market. The newly opened transhipment terminal has created 100 jobs at this stage, with a transhipment hall to be built, eventually employing an additional 300 people.
Barter S.A. is a Polish company established in 1999. It distributes and sells gases (propane-butane, butane, n-butane, LNG) and mineral fertilisers.
Eurofound (2024), Barter S.A., Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 201049, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/201049.
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