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.
On 15 September 2006 Vivendi Universal announced the creation of 2,030 jobs across France. The world group Vivendi Universal (or V U) is specialised in media and telecommunications with activities in music, interactive games, television, film, fixed and mobile telecommunications. It employs 13,142 people in France.
Back in the summer 2004, Vivendi Universal signed an agreement with the Ministry of Economics for the creation of jobs in France. The agreement urged Vivendi Universal not to delocalize jobs which could be created in France and to create those new jobs in cities where jobs had been cut in 2000.
In September Vivendi Universal announced that 700 new jobs will be created in call centers between October 2006 and December 2007. The distribution will be as follows: 250 in Somme (Abbeville and Montdidier), 250 in the Haut Rhin (Thann and Cernay) and 200 in Yonne (Tonnerois).
Vivendi Universal also announced that it will create some 1,330 further jobs in call centers between the fourth quarter 2007 and the last quarter 2009.
Eurofound (2006), Vivendi Universal, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 64094, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64094.
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