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.
Fleming, a company in Estonia producing soft furniture, dismisses all of its employees, 213 in total, in Tallinn, Estonia. The production will be relocated to units of the company in Lithuania, Poland or Ukraine. The reason for the relocation is a general labour shortage in Estonia and unfavourable regulations and expensive requirements for hiring foreign workforce in Estonia. According to the representative of the company, most of the current workers are approaching retirement age and it will be difficult to find new employees. The restructuring should be finalised by the end of May 2020.
Fleming Group is one of the largest soft furniture manufacturers in the Baltics, having production facilities currently in Estonia and Lithuania. The entire group employs currently around 420 employees. The company has been active in Estonia for 25 years.
Eurofound (2020), Fleming, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Estonia, factsheet number 99741, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/99741.
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...
