Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
South Korean multinational electronics company Samsung will open a new customer call centre in Leeds, Yorkshire. The decision to locate the call centre has created 358 jobs. The roles are mostly comprised of technical support, customer support, e-mail response and social media jobs; the majority of which were offered on permanent contract basis.
Samsung’s new base has been operational since the middle of May 2014. The recruitment of the 358 new roles has already taken place. The UK Prime Minister, David Cameron has been reported as saying that Samsung’s decision to locate their centre in Leeds was among one of a number of recent major projects that are contributing to the economic renewal underway in the city
Eurofound (2014), Samsung, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 77344, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/77344.