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.
Konplan, a Czech subsidiary of a German packaging and bottling machine manufacturer, is to open a new development and office centre in the Pilsen industrial and commercial zone Borská pole and to employ about 140 people in March 2020. Koplan currently employs 160 people at its Pilsen site. The newly built centre cost CZK 200 million (€7.9 million as at 17 January 2020).
Krones, headquartered in Neutraubling (Germany), is the world's leading manufacturer of lines for filling beverages in plastic and glass bottles or beverage cans. Globally, the company employs 1,800 people.
Eurofound (2020), Konplan, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 99657, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/99657.
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...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
