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.
Financial / Insurance/ Estate 65 - Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security 65 - Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security 65 - Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security
380 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
9 June 2004
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Royal London, the UK's second-largest mutual life assurer, became the latest life office to pull out of face-to-face direct sales, with a total loss of 380 jobs. About 50 jobs will go at Royal London's offices in Wilmslow with a further 330 in the rest of the country.
Sources
9 June 2004: The Financial Times
Citation
Eurofound (2004), Royal London, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60380, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/60380.