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 Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.51 - Manufacture of electric domestic appliances
New offshoring locations
Hungary
40 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 August 2012
Employment effect (start)
15 August 2012
Foreseen end date
Description
Whirlpool Sweden, a Swedish white goods manufacturer, has announced that it is to cut 40 jobs in Norrköping following a decision to move the production of printed circuit boards for their machines abroad. Whirlpool has 382 employees in Norrköping. The reduction is aimed at lowering the production costs but also at making the factory in Norrköping more competitive in the long run.
It has been reported that the production of printed circuit boards might probably be offshored to Flextronic's factory in Hungary. This information has yet to be officially confirmed.
Sources
15 August 2012: Norrköpings Tidningar
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Whirlpool Sweden, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 73983, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73983.
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