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 Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
European Globalisation Fund (EGF)
Year: 2010, Case number: 04
New offshoring locations
Uknown
900 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 November 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Sews Polska, a producer of cable bundles for the automotive industry, plans to offshore its assembly line in Sews Rawicz to Tunisia. The total workforce of 1,200 employees will be made redundant while 300 workers will be transferred to the Sews Polska plant in Leszno.
Eurofound (2009), Sews Rawicz, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Poland, factsheet number 69852, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69852.
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