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 Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
110 jobs Number of planned job losses
110 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 July 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Pfizer the American international drugs firm is to cut 110 jobs from its research and development plant in Kent, it announced on Friday 22 July 2005. However the firm said the job cuts would be offset by an almost identical number of jobs being moved to the plant. The factory employs 3,600 staff and 400 job cuts in manufacturing at the site had already been announced earlier in 2005. The latest cuts come as part of a global business review, aimed at saving $4 billion. The current 'Adapting To Scale' job cutting exercise follows the company's takeover of rival drug companies Pharmacia and Warner Lambert in 2002. A spokesman for the firm said: 'The site is now recognised as being efficient and effective and its record is that it is the greatest drug discovery team in the entire world, so it's obviously of great value to Pfizer.'
Sources
22 July 2005: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Pfizer, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61964, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61964.
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