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European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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On 28 October 2011, the Commercial court of Beauvais (France) announced the take-over of Anovo (4,400 employees worldwide), a company specialized in the repair and recycling of electronic equipment, by the investment fund Butler Capital.
Butler Capital has announced that it will take over all the sites in France and all the subsidiaries of other countries (UK, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Peru, Chile) except the subsidiaries in Italy and Sweden. In the process, the whole workforce will decrease from 5,150 to 4,400. The new owner will dismiss 750 employees within the group, including 392 in France.
Eurofound (2011), Anovo, Merger/Acquisition in World, factsheet number 72692, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/72692.