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.
IKEA Industry is a manufacturing branch of the furniture retailer IKEA. The company announced it will hire another 130 workers to its company in Malacky. The nature of job has not been specified, although they said it was all in manufacture. The preliminary testing period of manufacturing has been running since January 2024, now they plan to increase assembly capacity by 50%. IKEA Industry has a total of six plants in Slovakia – three in Malacky, two in Trnava and one in Jasná. Founded in 1999, IKEA Industry Malacky consists of a board factory and two furniture factories. Currently, about 560 people work there.
Eurofound (2024), IKEA, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 201434, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/201434.
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...
