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.
Scotland; South Western Scotland; East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire Mainland
Location of affected unit(s)
Kilmarnock
Sector
Financial Services Activities Auxiliary To Financial Services And Insurance Activities Activities Auxiliary To Financial Services And Insurance Activities 66.1 - Activities auxiliary to financial services, except insurance and pension funding
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 February 2010
Employment effect (start)
8 February 2010
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
Credit and debt recovery firm Mackenzie Hall is to recruit 100 more staff to its Kilmarnock call centre in 2010, doubling its workforce. 50 of the posts will be created in the next few months at the company, which assists in tracing debtors as well helping clients repay debts. Approximately 1 in every 220 people in Scotland were declared bankrupt in 2009, and statistics show the situation has been growing amongst those who are employed but do not have the equity in their house to pay off debts, as they may once have done.
Sources
8 February 2010: BBC Website
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Mackenzie Hall, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 70237, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70237.
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