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 (20 - 21) Manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceuticals 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
613 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 February 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
Pliva, the pharmaceutical company from the Israeli group Teva, is to cut 613 jobs (out of a total of 1,530) by the end of 2009. The redundancies will affect Pliva's factory in Krakow as well as its R&D and administrative units in Krakow and Warsaw. A further 790 jobs will be cut at Pliva's headquarters in Zagreb (Croatia).
Sources
16 February 2009: Onet Webside
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Pliva, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 68470, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/68470.