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.
Unilever's Birds Eye, which produces a large array of food products, has announced a review of its activities that could include the closing of at least one factory. Production sites include : Grimsby with 750 workers, Lowestoft with 800 staff, Hull with 600. This last plant is felt to be safe from restructuring. Management declared that no decision will be taken before 3 months. Unilever on 14 October 2004 announced that it would close its Birds Eye frozen food plant in Grimbsy in eastern England. The plant would close in the first quarter of 2005 with the loss of 600 jobs, 450 of the staff are women.
Eurofound (2004), Birds Eye, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 59897, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/59897.
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