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Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.6 - Retail sale of cultural and recreational goods 47.6 - Retail sale of cultural and recreational goods
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
3 February 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2011
Foreseen end date
Description
ECI, the book club, announced on 3 February 2011 that it will close all of its shops and hence dismiss 100 employees. Due to the ever decreasing number of members and the expensive cost of ECI stores, the company is focussing on a new strategy: online sale. From 1 June 2011 on, ECI will only have an online store.
Sources
4 February 2011: De Volkskrant
Citation
Eurofound (2011), ECI, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 72118, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/72118.