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 company Mix Buffet, a family owned company that mainly produces mix salads and snack products, has taken over the plant of La Nouvelle Farandole Gourmande in Fougère (Ile-et-Vilaine) that belonged to the group Delifrance. Mix Buffet has announced to invest EUR 6 million in the next three years and to recruit 120 employees. The factory, that closed last spring, will specialise in the manufacture of pastry products. In 2016, the Mix Buffet group achieved a turnover of EUR 200 million with 1,000 employees on permanent employment contract. Mix Buffet will also extend its factory of Pleumeleuc (Ille-et-Vilaine) with an investment of €5 million, and its headquarter in Guer (Morbihan). The Mix Buffet group is also working at its headquarters in Guer (Morbihan) to increase the production of snack products. Controlled by the Le Hir family, the company is one of the leading salad specialists alongside Martinet and Sodebo.
Eurofound (2017), Mix Buffet, Merger/Acquisition in France, factsheet number 90427, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/90427.
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