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.
Photowatt, a company specialised on photovoltaics, announced on 19 January 2007 its plans to enlarge a factory called 'Photovoltaïque' in the east of France (Bourgoin Jallieu, Isère).
Photowatt currently employs 500 people at the site and will create 1,400 additional jobs between January 2008 and December 2009 in Bourgouin Jaillieu.
The company has invested more than 125 million USD since 2002 into Spheral Solar, a joint venture of Photowatt with another company, but has yet to see any revenue from the business. Spheral Solar, which employs about 90 people in Cambridge, is developing technology for flexible solar panels that may be used in places not suitable for rigid, rectangular panels.
Eurofound (2007), Photowatt, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 64795, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64795.
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...
