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.
Unilever, multinational producer of food and household products, has announced that it will cut up to 3,200 jobs in Europe by the end of 2025.
Unilever is to reduce a third of its office-based positions in Europe. The measures will not affect production staff. According to the sources, the exact locations across Europe are yet to be formally decided on by the company, as a consultation process will start in the next few weeks. Hermann Soggeberg, the chair of Unilever’s European Works Council, reveals that almost all European offices are to be equally affected but particularly the major offices in London (UK) and Rotterdam (Netherlands).
The conditions of the programme will be negotiated with employee representatives according to local regulations.
The cuts are part of cost-saving programme announced in March 2024, affecting about 7,500 positions worldwide.
Currently, Unilever employs 128,000 people globally. On the European continent, the company operates in Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK, and Ukraine.
A previous global restructuring event of Unilever has been recorded in the ERM events database Unilever-2022-WO. Greece recorded 120 redundancies Unilever 2024 - EL and Italy recorded a redundancy of 143 Unilever 2024 - IT.
Eurofound (2024), Unilever, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 201408, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/201408.
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