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.
Ball Corporation, an American manufacturer of recyclable metal beverage and food containers, has announced to create 200 new jobs in a newly built plant in the Pilsen industrial zone. The production at the new site will start at the beginning of 2023. The investment of € 170 million is one of the largest of its kind in the Pilsen Region and throughout the Czech Republic in the last year. The plant is being built on a revitalized brownfield, its production of recyclable aluminium beverage packaging will be fully automated and will thus comply with the long-term philosophy of sustainable development. The firm has launched a large recruitment campaign since the beginning of March. New employees will undergo training courses.
In 2019, Ball Corporation received a state investment incentive of almost CZK 900 million (€ 36.5 million).
Founded in 1880, Ball Corporation employs 24,300 people worldwide and reported revenues of $ 13.8 billion in 2021.
Eurofound (2022), Ball Corporation, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 106721, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/106721.
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