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.
EAT a subsidiary of the company DHL active in the distribution of packets is about to cut 180 jobs on its site located at Brussels Airport. The company intends to relocate a part of its activities from Brussels to Leipzig in Germany where the company established its European hub, the Airline Operator Certificate will also be transfered to the plant of Leipzig. The restructuring will concern only the staff working on the ground. This decision is part of a general plan of cost reductions of the group Deutsche Post who consider those measures necessary to maintain the competitivenss of the company in the crisis context.
Eurofound (2009), EAT, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Belgium, factsheet number 69072, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/69072.