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.
France, Switzerland, USA, China, Malaysia, Egypt, Canada, Austria
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products And Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products Manufacture Of Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products 23.6 - Manufacture of articles of concrete, cement and plaster
380 jobs Number of planned job losses
37 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 May 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
Cement producer Lafarge has announced to its European Works council that it plans to cut about 380 positions worldwide, 203 of these in France as previously reported.
At the same time the company is to create 37 positions in its research and development activities in France.
The reorganisation is in the in the frame of a reorganisation linked to the merger process with Swiss cement producer Holcim.
Eurofound (2015), Lafarge, Merger/Acquisition in World, factsheet number 83458, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83458.
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