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 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
New offshoring locations
Italy
180 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 November 2009
Employment effect (start)
31 March 2010
Foreseen end date
30 April 2010
Description
Japanese manufacturer Honda will stop manufacturing motorcycles at Santa Perpètua de la Mogoda (Barcelona) at the end of March 2010 and the production will be offshored to Honda unit in Italy. This measure will result in the dismissal of 180 employees from a current workforce of 340. The decision was attributed to the economic recession, according to the business daily Nikkei. The firm's Santa Perpètua factory has production capacity for 50,000 units a year and from March will continue manufacturing parts.
Sources
16 November 2009: Cinco Días
17 October 2009: El País
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Honda, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Spain, factsheet number 69898, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69898.
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