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.
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.31 - Manufacture Of Electrical And Electronic Equipment For Motor Vehicles
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 May 2023
Employment effect (start)
10 June 2023
Foreseen end date
30 June 2026
Description
Continental is to create 500 jobs between now and 2026 in its plant at Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). The announcement was made at the Choose France summit in Versailles, in May 2023, by the French president Emmanuel Macron. These 500 people will be hired in Toulouse, at the Basso Cambo site, which already employs 1,500 people. The plant is specialised in on-board electronics.
Previous recruitment campaigns of Continental in France have been recorded in the ERM Events data: in 2019, they hired 270 new employees (Continental 2019 - FR), in 2018, it was 350 new vacancies provided by the company (Continental 2018 - FR) and in 2011, with 100 new jobs (Continental 2011 - FR).
Eurofound (2023), Continental Automotive Toulouse, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 201255, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201255.
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