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.
Cable & Wireless is cutting 600 jobs and quitting its central London headquarters of 50 years as it carries out another restructuring of its core UK business in the face of fierce competition and flat revenues. It marks yet another restructuring for a business that has pulled out of the US and Japan and cut 1,500 jobs over the past year. Half the jobs will be lost in Britain, where the company is moving to Bracknell, Berkshire next February from the premises on London's Theobalds Road it opened in 1955. The rest of the job losses will fall in France and Germany as C&W cuts it staff in mainland Europe by more than half.
Eurofound (2004), Cable and Wireless, Internal restructuring in European Union, factsheet number 60750, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/60750.
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...
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