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.
Octopus Energy, the British electricity and gas retailer, which specialises in ‘clean energy’, has announced plans to create 1,000 jobs in the UK by the end of 2021, doubling its current workforce. The jobs will be created in London, Brighton, Warwick, Leicester and in the company’s new technology centre in Manchester, and will be open to STEM graduates.
A statement by the company said it was planning to expand its cloud-based technology platform to make it easier and cheaper for people to use renewable energy in their homes.
Octopus was founded in 2016 and it is one of the fastest growing private firms in the UK, with operations in the UK, Germany, Australia and the US.
Eurofound (2020), Octopus Energy, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 102259, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/102259.
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...
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Since 2013, Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legislation has been documenting regulatory developments in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change. The most recent update to the...
