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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32.4 - Manufacture of games and toys
New offshoring locations
Czechia
900 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 June 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2006
Foreseen end date
1 July 2009
Description
The toy manufacturer, LEGO, will stop production in Denmark. This means that 900 out 1200 employees will be made redundant during the next three years. The management expects that part of the redundancies will be employees leaving for natural reasons, not being directly dismissed. The management and the local unions are working on a plan to re-employ the employees. The production in Billund, Denmark, will be relocated to Kladno, The Czech Republic, where Flextronics have taken over LEGO's facilities.
Sources
20 June 2006: Berlingske Tidende
Citation
Eurofound (2006), LEGO, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Denmark, factsheet number 63667, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63667.
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