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 Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
New offshoring locations
Slovakia
230 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 May 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2011
Foreseen end date
30 September 2012
Description
Global Garden Products announced its decision to move its production from Italy to Slovakia, resulting in 230 job losses over 2 years.
Global Garden Products, one of the leading manufacturers in Europe of lawn mowers, is to move its production of 250,000 mowers (under the brand Castelgarden) from Treviso, in the North of Italy, to Slovakia. The delocalisation process will cause 160 job-losses in 2011, and 70 job-cuts in 2012.
Around 650 workers are employed in the Treviso plant.
In 2010 the company made a loss of EUR 10 million.
The trade unions organised protest actions against the company's decision.
Sources
14 May 2011: Milano Finanza
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Global Garden Products, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Italy, factsheet number 72212, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72212.
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