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.
Planet-U Energy, the British renewable energy broker firm has announced that it will create 150 new jobs by the end of 2020 in Leeds, England.
The recruitment drive for energy brokers, sales executives, account managers and business development managers is already underway.
This business expansion is part of the company's effort to become the first British exclusively renewables energy broker, providing services allowing clients to reduce their overall business carbon footprint and implement clean energy technologies.
Planet-U Energy was established in 2018. Since then, the firm has sold £720 million (an estimated €800 million, as at 24 July 2020) worth of energy contracts and it is currently opening its second office in Leeds.
Eurofound (2020), Planet-U Energy, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 101314, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/101314.
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