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 French group Trigo, which is specialised in quality control and management in the automotive and aeronautical industries, has announced the recruitment of 160 people by the end of the year, including around 100 in its subsidiary responsible for aeronautics, defence and railways. These are positions of responsibility on the production sites. The positions are to be filled throughout France, in Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, Valenciennes, Bordeaux and Toulouse.
For the automotive branch, Trigo is recruiting more than fifty people on permanent contracts for sites located mainly in Mulhouse, Sochaux, Douai, Lyon, Caen, Poissy and Tours. The quality control digitalisation subsidiary Scortex, based in Paris, is recruiting more than ten employees on permanent contracts to strengthen its specialised teams of engineers in advanced IT. In total, with the recruitments made since the beginning of the year, Trigo will have hired 400 people by the end of 2022.
A former resttructuring withint group Trigo has eben recorded in 2020 when Trigo Qualitaire, a company specialised in the quality control of aircraft parts, has announced 183 job cuts in France (Trigo Qualitaire 2020 - FR).
Eurofound (2022), Trigo, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 107117, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/107117.
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