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.
Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale Of Household Goods 46.4 - Wholesale of household goods
700 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
28 June 2018
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has presented 700 employees the possibility to stop working at the company. This concerns the employees in the subsidiary Inter Ikea Systems in Delft, the Netherlands, but also in Malmö and Helsingborg. Information regarding exactly how many employees in Sweden respectively the Netherlands this concern, is not available.
A spokesperson for Inter Ikea Systems, Kaisa Lyckdal, said that Ikea aims at continuing with a sustainable and cost-efficient growth, which demands updates ahead of the future. There is no information regarding when the employment effect will start.
Eurofound (2018), Ikea, Internal restructuring in European Union, factsheet number 94480, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/94480.
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