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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Tobacco Products Manufacture Of Tobacco Products 12.00 - Manufacture of tobacco products
180 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
13 September 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
30 September 2021
Description
Cigarette manufacturing company British American Tobacco announced the dismissal of 180 employees in research and development at its site in Bayreuth, Bavaria within the upcoming two years. The restructuring event derives from the company's plan to make a total of 2,300 employees redundant worldwide. Indeed, the decision to reduce the workforce aims at compensating the decline in sales and at investing more in the manufacturing of e-cigarettes. The plan took the works council in Bayreuth by surprise; negotiations of a social plan are due to begin in September.
Eurofound (2019), British American Tobacco, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 98594, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98594.
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