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 (31) Manufacture of furniture 31.0 - Manufacture of furniture 31.00 - Manufacture of furniture
New offshoring locations
Sweden
140 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 September 2013
Employment effect (start)
26 September 2013
Foreseen end date
30 June 2014
Description
Kinnarps, Swedish-based manufacturer of office furniture, will relocate its site from Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia) to Sweden thus making 140 people redundant. This is said to be due to increased efficiency.
The relocation shall be completed by the first half of 2014. In Minden, the company aims to open an “International Design Center”. There is no official information on the number of people to be employed, but it is suggested that only 10 people will be employed. The Kinnarps site in Worms is not affected.
Sources
25 September 2013: Kinnarps (Press release)
25 September 2013: Mindener Tageblatt (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Kinnarps, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 75950, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/75950.
Eurofound’s ERM restructuring legislation database offers an overview of key restructuring-related regulations in the EU Member States and Norway. Its content is continuously updated to reflect any changes made by national legislators in response to, for instance, policy shifts, legal...
Can Europe still achieve its ambitions for battery manufacturing? To answer this, the article looks at data from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor and explores what recent large-scale restructuring events reveal about the state of play in the EU battery sector.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...