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.
Concentrix, a global provider of customer experience solutions and technologies, has opened a new office in the Global Office Park complex in Katowice, Poland, and will employ 500 people. The establishment of the new office is linked to the company's expanding operations in Poland. Katowice was chosen as the location due to its emergence as an hub for IT sectors in Poland for several years; the office lease was finalised on 30 November 2023, and IT specialists will be employed. Concentrix carries out customer experience (CX) projects for more than 130 Fortune Global 500 and 125 new economy clients and is present in 40 countries and six continents; in total, Concentrix employs more than 1,500 people in Poland.
Eurofound (2023), Concentrix, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 200587, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/200587.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
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Since 2013, Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legislation has been documenting regulatory developments in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change. The most recent update to the...
