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.
Brno-based Whalebone, a leading provider of cybersecurity for the telecommunications sector, has announced plans to create 190 new jobs by the end of 2025, following the company's receipt of an investment worth CZK 335 million ($14 million) for further development. Whalebone is repeatedly ranked among the fastest-growing companies in Europe, which attracts investors
The funding will enable the company to execute on several strategic initiatives, including global expansion, improving customer support, accelerating product development, growing in the enterprise and public sectors, and improving threat detection capabilities.
Whalebone, established in 2016 in the city of Brno, Czech Republic, has grown into the official provider of secure DNS resolution for the European Union and a globally recognized market leader with the highest number of telco mass-market cybersecurity deployments.
Eurofound (2025), Whalebone, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 202371, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/202371.
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...
