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.
East Midlands; Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire; Derby
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
750 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
2 December 2004
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Canadian manufacturer Bombardier is to cut 560 jobs at Britain's only remaining train manufaturing plant in Derby. A spokeswoman for Bombardier in the UK maintained the latest job cuts were a "worst-case scenario" and would only go ahead if it was unsuccessful in winning new export orders from South Africa and Ireland.
The workforce of the Derby plant will fall by a third to 1,386. There will also be 165 redundancies in Ilford, where Bombardier maintains its trains, taking the total cuts in Britain to 750. The Montreal-based group is shedding 2,200 transport jobs worldwide.
Bombardier's French competitor, Alstom, closed its UK plant at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, this year with the loss of 1,000 jobs.
Sources
2 December 2004: The Independent
2 December 2004: The Guardian
Citation
Eurofound (2004), Bombardier, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60799, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60799.
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