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.
Inter Mutuelles Assistance (IMA) has announced the creation of a new site in Limoges (Haute-Vienne) with the recruitment of 100 employees in the spring 2024, with the aim of reaching a workforce of 350 by 2027. IMA is an economic interest group created in 1981 following the project of three mutual insurance companies (MAIF, MAAF and MACIF) to pool their resources to create their own assistance company. At first, IMA was housed in a former barracks building provided by the local council, while a former clinic was being refurbished to house the IMA assistance centre. The municipality of Limoges has indicated that it has mobilised all the resources available within Limoges Métropole from July 2023 to find a solution to the IMA Group's development needs. Limoges will be IMA's third French site dedicated to travel assistance, after Niort and Rouen, with 120 job creations announced in 2018 FR-IMA-2018.
Eurofound (2023), Inter Mutuelles Assistance, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 200653, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/200653.
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...
