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 Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Goods In Specialised Stores 47.71 - Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores
216 - 316 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
24 January 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2020
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
The management of the clothing company C&A has announced a reorganisation project that will result in the closure of 30 stores in France (out of 150) and 13 stores in Germany (out of 450).
In France, 216 jobs will be cut in 2020. In 2019, C&A had announced the closure of 14 stores in France (out of a total of 160) and the loss of 120 jobs. The first set of measures taken in the summer of 2019 have not been 'sufficient, according to the management' reported a trade unionist of Force Ouvrière. Although this first operation has not yet been completed, the company announced this new reorganisation. The group closed eight stores in France in 2018, and 13 in 2017.
In Germany, C&A has not given details on the number of job cuts, but it can be estimated that over 100 people are affected. A company spokesperson reported on 24 January that affected stores are located in Saxony-Anhalt, Baden-Wuerttemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Lower Saxony, Bavaria, Berlin and Brandenburg. The spokesperson stressed that the company will find reemployment solution for the affected employees.
C&A employs 50,599 people worldwide including 30,657 in Europe, out of which 13,500 in Germany.
Eurofound (2020), C&A, Internal restructuring in European Union, factsheet number 99709, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99709.
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