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.
The commercial court of Coutance approved the two take-over offers for Abattoirs industriels de la Manche (AIM), a pork slaughterhouse, with the consequent loss of 314 jobs losses of a total of 590. The main site, the slaughterhouse of Sainte-Cécile (Manche) will be taken over by a company where the employees have a majority shareholding. Regional and local authorities have also shares and the new company will receive a financial support of the State of about 2.5 million euro through the Banque publique d’investissement. The new company will keep 206 positions of a total of 357. A secondary site, a bovine slaughterhouse, in Antrain (Ille-et-Vilaine) is take over by a company, Chapin-Monfort, that will retain 70 of 179 jobs.
Eurofound (2015), Abattoirs Industriels de la Manche, Merger/Acquisition in France, factsheet number 78472, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/78472.
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