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.
Renault has relocated the production of Trafic from the Opel plant in Lutton (UK) and Nissan in Barcelona (Spain) to Sandouville. The aim is to save this plant where production volumes have reduced from 105,000 units six years ago to only 25,000 cars in 2013. The group has invested €230 million in its plant in Sandouville, and intends to move its production from high-end vehicles to commercial ones by mid-2015 It is reported that in addition to the announced job creation plan, the company will call back 400 employees that were previously employed in other plants within the Renault group. In January 2013, Renault announced plans to cut about 7,500 jobs within the group in France. Renault–Nissan Alliance is a Franco-Japanese strategic partnership based in Amsterdam and founded in 1999.
Eurofound (2014), Renault, Reshoring in France, factsheet number 238, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/238.