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
500 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
8 December 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
Leoni, producer of cabling systems for automobiles and other industrial applications, will close its plant in Ostrzeszów dismissing all its 500 employees by the end of 2010. As a result of falling demand for cars and trucks, staff in the Ostrzeszów plant had already been reduced from about 1,650 in December 2008 to 500 before the closure (12313).
8 December 2009: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł Webside (www.wnp.pl)
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Citation
Eurofound (2009), Leoni, Closure in Poland, factsheet number 69993, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69993.
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