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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
New offshoring locations
Turkey
133 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 March 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007
Description
Gasfire manufactures cooking stoves and ovens and is owned by the Candy group, one of the European leaders in the household appliance market. The Gasfire plant is located in Erba (Como) and has 133 employees. On 27 March 2007, Candy announced the decision to close the Gasfire plant within this year. The company has chosen to relocate the production in Turkey in order to reduce its operative costs, namely labour, which are significantly lower in Turkey than in Italy. The trade unions reacted to the company’s decision by going out on strike. In general, they express concerns about the industrial strategies of the Candy group regarding all its Italian plants and offices. For this reason, they demand the involvement of the local and national authorities with a view to find ways to avoid the redundancies and to obtain information on Candy’s industrial strategies.
Sources
28 March 2007: Il corriere della sera
28 March 2007: Il Sole 24 Ore
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Gasfire, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Italy, factsheet number 65185, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65185.
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