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.
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic plans to build a high-tech Biotechnology centre aimed at the activities in the fields of biotechnology, molecular biology, genome research, tissue and protein engineering, neurobiology and immunology. The centre will be located in Vestec near the Prague capital city on an area of 55,000 square metres at the cost of EUR 77 million. Exclusive laboratories spreading on 8,000 square metres will offer technical and research related jobs to 400 persons and 150-200 new and recent graduates. There is also an intention to provide future employees with social infrastructure facilities like housing, nursery school etc. The centre is to be opened in 2010 or 2011 and is expected to join similar research projects at the European level.
Eurofound (2006), Akademie věd ČR (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 64693, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64693.
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,...
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