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.
Grampian Country Food Group announced on 27 September 2006 that it is to pull out of the frozen poultry market. This decision is threatening the firm's 111 workers at its plant in Bucksburn, Aberdeen with redundancy. Bucksburn is the only plant where the company processes frozen chicken. A company spokesman said the decision to discontinue frozen chicken followed a downturn in demand, but the exact job implications were not clear. Grampian Country Food Group said the downturn had forced a review of that side of its operations. The company said it was too early to say how many workers could be made redundant as other job opportunities could become available. Alternative ways of developing the Bucksburn site will also be explored. Aberdeen North SNP MSP Brian Adam: 'This is extremely disappointing news and I hope that Grampian Country Foods will do all they can to find alternative employment for the 111 workers.'
More than 40 jobs had already been lost at the Bucksburn factory earlier this year. And there have been other job losses at operations in Banff.
Eurofound (2006), Grampian Country Food Group, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 63438, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/63438.
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...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
