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.
LIDL is recruiting for the opening of its largest logistics centre in France on the Ablis business park in Prunay-en-Yvelines (Yvelines). The site will be 15 metres high and cover 90,000 m². The initial shipments of pallets are expected to arrive in mid-October 2024, and the complete opening of the site is planned for March 2025. A number of storage areas for foodstuffs and other products will be created, as well as loading bays for the lorries that will deliver the supermarkets, and offices. 300 jobs are to be filled before the opening. They include 50 administrative, sales and business development staff and 250 logistics staff. Management explains that it has begun recruiting managers and supervisors. In early spring 2024, management will begin recruiting order pickers. Several job creations have been recorded in the ERM database: 150 in 2013 FR-LIDL-2013, 180 in October 2007 FR-LIDL-2007b, 440 in July 2007 FR-LIDL-2007a and 120 in 2006 FR-LIDL-2006
Eurofound (2023), LIDL, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 200654, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/200654.
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