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.
Irish ready-to-wear Primark is set to open a new store in the Mondeville 2 shopping centre near Caen in Calvados in autumn 2025, creating 150 jobs. Spanning approximately 4,000 m², the store will be one of the largest units in the mall.
The opening of Primark is part of a strategy to renovate the centre, which attracts no fewer than five million visitors per year. A strong influx of customers is expected, particularly in the early autumn months. A few factsheets have already been published on Primark France as part of business expansion restructuring processes : Primark 2025 - FR Primark 2022 - FR Primark 2016 - FR
Eurofound (2025), Primark, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 203139, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203139.
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...
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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...
