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.
Protecop, a French SME specializing in ballistic protection, relocated part of its production from Tunisia to Bernay, Eure, France in 2022. Established four decades ago, this family-owned company established a factory in Tunisia almost a decade ago employing 150 out of its 200 workers. It implemented this relocation with the support of a half-million euro grant from the French government's Recovery Plan. The primary objective is to secure the supply chain for strategic products. In addition to receiving support from the Recovery Plan, Protecop made 600,000 euros of investment in R&D in 2021, recently providing the facility with a ballistic test bench for on-site testing of the bullet resistance of its equipment.
Eurofound (2022), Protecop, Reshoring in France, factsheet number 284, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/284.
Eurofound’s ERM restructuring legislation database offers an overview of key restructuring-related regulations in the EU Member States and Norway. Its content is continuously updated to reflect any changes made by national legislators in response to, for instance, policy shifts, legal...
Can Europe still achieve its ambitions for battery manufacturing? To answer this, the article looks at data from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor and explores what recent large-scale restructuring events reveal about the state of play in the EU battery sector.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
