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.
British Imperial Tobacco announced the closure of the Berlin manufacturing plant with the loss of 420 jobs by the end of 2011.
The company also announced that out of these 420 jobs 90 jobs will be relocated to the plant at Langenhagen, Lower Saxony, and another 80 jobs will be moved to Hamburg.
According to the employee representative on the supervisory board, the workers pay a 'political price' for the merger of Altadis and Imperial Tobacco as management wants to evenly distribute the closures in Europe.
Imperial Tobacco employs a workforce of 2,000 in Germany. The Berlin plant was at risk of closure five years ago, but it was saved due to political intervention. As the plant manufactures for the Eastern European market, the workforce has been growing over the last years.
Eurofound (2008), Imperial Tobacco, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 66775, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/66775.