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.
Trigo Group, world leader in industrial quality control in the transport sector, plans to recruit 200 people in France over the course of 2023, including around fifty employees at its industrial sites in Mulhouse and Sochaux. Founded in 1997, this French group, specialised in quality control and management for the automotive industry, has 10,000 employees worldwide. In 2015, it broadened its scope to include the aerospace industry, acquiring its North American counterpart The PIC Group to become the world leader in the sector. The new hires announced are aimed at accelerating the group's diversification into sectors such as aerospace, defence, rail and heavy transport. Trigo will build on developments in key areas such as artificial intelligence, data exploitation, automation and augmented reality.
Two previous recruitment announcements were recorded from the Trigo group in the ERM database, in 2022, with 160 recruitments announced (FR-Trigo-2022) and in 2020 with 183 recruitments (FR-Trigo-Qualitaire-2020).
Eurofound (2023), Trigo, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 109197, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/109197.
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