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 pharmaceutical group UCB announced at the end of August its decision to specialize in a certain type of medicine that acts on the immune system and the nerve center.
As a result 2400 jobs worldwide will be cut, while the management announced the recruitment of 400 specialists in these two fields.
Jobs losses have been announced in Belgium. The management remains silent about other countries but announced some restructuration in Europe, Japan and the United States.
Eurofound (2008), UCB, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 67063, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/67063.