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.
Stationery manufacturer Staedtler plans to close two plants by 2028. The plants in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz and Sugenheim (both in Bavaria) will be affected, impacting around 300 employees. The processes are to be integrated into the main production site in Nuremberg, and employees will be offered jobs there. Currently, around 100 employees work in Sugenheim and around 200 at the Neumarkt site in the Upper Palatinate. The company plans to invest in the construction of a new plant in Eastern Europe due to better economic conditions there. The IG Metall trade union announced resistance, insisting that the sites should be preserved.
Worldwide, the company employs 2,200 people, including 1,200 in Germany.
Eurofound (2025), Staedtler, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 204041, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/204041.
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