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.
The Italian railway company Trenitalia announced the recruitment of 100 people in France.
On the occasion of the Choose France summit organised by the French Presidency to attract foreign investors to France, Trenitalia announced its new recruitments and its investments, which amount to €273 million euros in Paris and Lyon, in order to develop its services. It did not specify the timeframe of the recruitments.
The Italian company is already present in the United Kingdom, Germany and Greece, it is also launching its business in Spain. In France, the company has invested €300 million euros, has 160 employees and has transported 350,000 passengers since its first journeys in December 2021.
Eurofound (2022), Trenitalia, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 107114, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/107114.
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