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 Of Rubber And Plastic Products And Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products Manufacture Of Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products 23.42 - Manufacture of ceramic sanitary fixtures
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 March 2010
Employment effect (start)
19 March 2010
Foreseen end date
19 March 2010
Description
Ideal Standard, a Sevlievo-based manufacturer of bathroom fixtures, reinstated about 150 workers, said Vasil Kanev, the firm’s vice-president for Eastern Europe.
“The situation is not what it was two years ago but it is by no means hopeless,†the manager told the sixth Bathroom of the Year competition staged by Ideal Standard. “We’ve managed to overcome what I hope was the worst of the crisis thanks to unpopular measures,†Kanev explained. "[the measures] we have taken [to tackle the crisis] don’t seem vey nice but they are helping us come out of the doldrums,†he added. Downsizing was coupled with wage cuts and a “month without salaries,†where workers got no pay for two days each month until they make a month.
Ideal Standard International owns two plants in Bulgaria including Ideal Standard Vidima and Ideal Standard Bulgaria. Both facilities are based outside Sevlievo, central Bulgaria, and give job to some 3,400 put together.
Eurofound (2010), Ideal Standard Bulgaria, Business expansion in Bulgaria, factsheet number 70530, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70530.
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