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 world's number one luxury group LVMH has as announced the opening of its 16th leather goods workshop in Beaulieu-sur-Layon (Maine-et-Loire) that will lead to recruit about 250 employees. The workshop will be created at the begining of 2019, but recruitments will start earlier. The group Louis Vuitton has already announced, in February 2018, the recruitment of 200 employees at its site in La Merlatière (Vendée). The Louis Vuitton brand employed 4,500 people in 2017 worldwide, including 3,500 in its French workshops.
Eurofound (2018), Soc des Ateliers Louis Vuitton, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 93692, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/93692.
Eurofound’s ERM restructuring legislation database offers an overview of key restructuring-related regulations in the EU Member States and Norway. Its content is continuously updated to reflect any changes made by national legislators in response to, for instance, policy shifts, legal...
Can Europe still achieve its ambitions for battery manufacturing? To answer this, the article looks at data from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor and explores what recent large-scale restructuring events reveal about the state of play in the EU battery sector.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
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