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.
Yorkshire and the Humber; South Yorkshire; Barnsley
Location of affected unit(s)
Barnsley
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products And Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products 22.22 - Manufacture of plastic packing goods
400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 December 2004
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
A packaging company in Barnsley is to close with the loss of 400 jobs.
Parkside Performance Films at Darton has been in administration since 23 November and attempts to sell the business have failed.
About half the workforce were made redundant on Friday 17 December 2004. The other employees are being kept on for a short time to finish existing orders.
The company says it has been hit by rising raw material costs and the Darton plant has been losing money. The Parkside factories at Normanton in West Yorkshire and Zlotow in Poland are not affected.
Sources
17 December 2004: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2004), Parkside Performance Films, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60922, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60922.
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