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.
Royal Worcester and Spode announced in November 2006 that 200 jobs would be lost but have now revised the figure to 250.
The cuts, at its factories in Worcester and Stoke-on-Trent, will now take effect in June after passing the original date of January.
A spokesman for the union Unity said the company blamed the increase on adverse trading conditions and the future of manufacturing in Stoke. 'The workers were shocked but weren't surprised by the decision. They had a rough idea when they were told yesterday', Garry Oakes, deputy general secretary for the union.
Up to 160 workers will remain at the factory in Stoke-on-Trent, he added.
The firm was chosen to provide the prime minister's present for the Queen's 80th birthday in the summer.
Josiah Spode began manufacturing his wares in about 1770.
Eurofound (2007), Royal Worcester and Spode, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64979, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64979.
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