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, Printing And Reproduction Of Recorded Media Printing And Reproduction Of Recorded Media 18 - Printing and reproduction of recorded media
170 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
19 June 2007
Employment effect (start)
19 June 2007
Foreseen end date
Description
Graphoprint, a commercial printing firm, has made 170 redundant at its plant in Flintshire as a result of the firm going into administration. The company laid off the workers on 19 June 2007, but 20 are being kept on. Ten staff at its Milton Keynes head office have also been made redundant. Accountant KPMG said it was hoping to find a buyer for the business. North Wales Liberal Democrat AM Eleanor Burnham is to ask an urgent question about the job losses at the assembly on Wednesday. The Deeside plant was virtually destroyed in a fire in April 2005, but a new state-of-the-art works was opened last year.
Sources
20 June 2007: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Graphoprint, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 65520, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65520.
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