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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28.94 - Manufacture of machinery for textile, apparel and leather production
120 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
5 December 2014
Employment effect (start)
5 December 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
German knitting machinery manufacturer H. Stoll will cut 120 out of 560 jobs in Reutlingen. The job reduction will affect the administration with 60 pc and production with 40 pc. There was no information given on the end date of the restructuring.
According to the management, the job cutting is mainly due to increasing competition from Asia. In the future, production will partly be relocated to China.
The company has set up a social plan for €11 million. Dismissed employees will have the opportunity to change into a transfer agency for up to three years. The remaining employees will resign holiday and Christmas payments this year and 2015 to help the company becoming more cost-efficient.
H. Stoll runs a turnover of €250-€300 million per year and currently employs around 800 people in total.
Sources
5 December 2014: Südwest Presse Online
Citation
Eurofound (2014), H. Stoll, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 78016, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78016.
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