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 Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Leather And Related Products 15.11 - Tanning and dressing of leather; dressing and dyeing of fur
New offshoring locations
Croatia
34 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
13 June 2006
Employment effect (start)
14 June 2006
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
Boxmark Leather is a company which produces leather for suppliers in the automobile industry. The company is owned by Austrian firm Schmidt. Schmidt decided to relocate the most technologically sophisticated part of leather production from Slovenia to Croatia, where it already built new production premises. This will make 184 workers in the existing production programme of Boxmark Leather in Slovenia redundant. However, Boxmark Leather just launched some new production programmes and 150 of the workers will be employed there. Therefore, 34 employees will lose their jobs.
Sources
13 June 2006: Finance
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Boxmark Leather, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Slovenia, factsheet number 63628, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63628.
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