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.
The clothing chain Kiabi, which is part of the Mulliez Group, has announced that it is to create more than 270 new jobs by developing logistics facilities at its Douai site between March 2009 and December 2011.
Local authorities in the Douai district of northern France have signed the contract for the sale of an area of 15.7 ha in a local business park to Kiabi, which is investing 41 millions Euros plans in the development of the new facilities. Building work is expected to be completed in March 2009. By 2012, Kiabi is expected to employ 270 permanent and 80 temporary staff at the site.
By 2012, Kiabi is expected to employ 270 permanent and 80 temporary staff at the site.
Eurofound (2008), Kiabi, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 66239, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/66239.
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