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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.4 - Manufacture of electric lighting equipment
New offshoring locations
Austria, United Kingdom, Sweden
180 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 May 2009
Employment effect (start)
15 May 2009
Foreseen end date
15 May 2009
Description
The Austrian group Zumtobel announced its intention to close the plant in Curtici, manufacturing lighting equipments and dissmis its workforce (180 employees). The representatives of Zumtobel Lighting Curtici are negotiating a compensatory payments' plan for its staff. According to the company representatives' statements, the production from the Curtici plant will be transferred to the locations owned by the group in other European countries, respectively Dornbirn (Austria), Spennymoor (Great Britain) and Landskrona (Sweden).
Sources
5 May 2009: Economistul
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Zumtobel Lighting, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Romania, factsheet number 68998, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68998.
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