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Manufacturing (26 - 27) Manufacture of electrical, electronic and optical products 27.5 - Manufacture of domestic appliances 27.5 - Manufacture of domestic appliances
1,420 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 October 2025
Employment effect (start)
10 October 2025
Foreseen end date
31 March 2028
Description
On 10 October 2025, the German manufacturer of domestic appliances BSH Hausgeräte announced plans to cut over 1,400 jobs by spring of 2028. The company will close its factories in Bretten (Baden-Wurttemberg), where stoves and extractor hoods are manufactured, and Nauen (Brandenburg), where washing machines are manufactured. Due to the closures, 980 jobs in Bretten will be lost by the end of the first quarter of 2028, and 440 jobs in Nauen by the end middle of 2027.
The company stated that the job reductions were necessary as the market situation for home appliances in Germany had not improved. BSH faced shrinking markets and increasing pressure from competitors.
To reach a fair and socially responsible solution for the planned job reductions, BSH wants to start negotiations with the works council soon. The works council and German Metalworkers' Union (IG Metall) have strongly criticized the company for the latest announcements which came at a surprise to both.
Already in 2024, BSH had announced to cut 450 jobs BSH Haushaltsgeräte 2024 - DE. Only at the end of September 2025, parent company Bosch had also announced further jobs cuts at its German sites Bosch 2025 - DE.
Eurofound (2025), BSH Hausgeräte, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 203474, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203474.
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