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.
US-based international provider of packaging services Sonoco Poland, a subsidiary of Sonoco, has announced that it will create 160 new jobs at the unit in Stryków. The company is looking for 140 blue collars (production workers and engineers) and 20 office staff. The company has just expanded the factory in Stryków by 9,000 m2.
Sonoco provides diversified consumer packaging, industrial products, protective packaging, and packaging supply chain services as well as is the world’s largest producer of composite cans, tubes and cores. Sonoco employs about 21,000 people in more than 335 operations in 33 countries. In Poland, Sonoco has been operating since 2005; it has five factories (Stryków, Wrocław, Sochaczew and Łódź) employing about 2,500 people. In Stryków, the company has been operating since 2008 and employs 1050 people.
Eurofound (2018), Sonoco Display and Packaging, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 93779, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/93779.
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