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.
Spanish electricity firm Endesa is to invest € 920million to upgrade and extend its electricity distribution network in the region of Andalusia (Spain) between 2019 and 2021.The plan will generate, according to the company, 10,000 direct jobs and more than 7,000 indirect jobs by subcontracting operations in the region. The total investment is 22% higher than in the previous strategic plan. The most important target of this new plan is digitalization, a factor that will improve the supply quality with 4,500 new distribution centres using digital solutions. Endesa's proposal also foresees the construction of 23 new substations. In addition, the power company will install new power distribution lines: 1,688 kilometres of cables both high and low voltage.
Eurofound (2018), Endesa, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 93925, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/93925.
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...
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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...
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