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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25 - Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
New offshoring locations
Not Available
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 May 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Couzon, a French company specialised in cooking utensils and crockery, is to lay off one hundred jobs out of 231. On 20 May 2005, the company announced the closure of its Thiers site in Auvergne. Management had already begun the delocalisation of the production in Asia since 2003 and planned to relocate most of the production by the end of 2006.
Sources
20 May 2005: Les Echos
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Couzon, Offshoring/Delocalisation in France, factsheet number 61662, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61662.
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