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 Furniture And Other Manufacturing Manufacture Of Furniture 31.02 - Manufacture of kitchen furniture
New offshoring locations
United Kingdom
150 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 September 2012
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
Swedish manufacturer of furniture Nobia will offshore the production of its German low price kitchen furniture subsidiary Optifit Jaka. The offshoring from Germany to the UK will affect 150 jobs.
It is reported that the move is motivated by a need to centralize mass production. The manufacturing of bathroom furniture is said to remain at the German site.
Optifit Jaka currently employs 220 people. Talks with the works council will start in September.
Sources
1 September 2012: Westfalen Blatt
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Optifit, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 74062, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74062.
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