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 Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32 - Other manufacturing
New offshoring locations
Finland
115 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 November 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
GE Healthcare Germany, a producer of medical equipment and technology, has announced that it is to cut 115 jobs at its site in Freiburg. The two divisions affected will be the ‘consignment of products’ department and the ‘repair’ department. Part of the production at the ‘consignments of products’ department will be ‘offshored’ to the Middle East, whilst the whole of the ‘repair’ department will be ‘offshored’ to Helsinki in Finland. As of November 2007, there is no information on the number employed at the Freiburg site or when the job losses will be implemented by. GE Healthcare employs 1,700 at 11 locations in Germany.
Sources
22 November 2007: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Citation
Eurofound (2007), GE Healthcare, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 66044, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66044.
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