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.
American multinational food producer Kellogg Company (Kellog’s) has announced the creation of over100 new jobs at its factory of potato chips in Kutno (Łódź Special Economic Zone). The company has just launched the fourth production line at the factory. Kellog’s has invested about PLN 500mn (€107.67 mn) in the factory, enabling the production of an additional 120 million cans of Pringles per year. The new line will use the latest food production technology and will be highly efficient and environmentally friendly.
Kellogg Company was founded in 1906; currently the company is the world’s largest breakfast cereal producer employing more than 34,000 people in over 50 units located in 18 countries across the world. Kellog’s has been operating in Kutno since 2008, and Pringles have been produced there since 2014. Currently, it employs 555 people at the site.
Eurofound (2021), Kellog Company, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 105299, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/105299.
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