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.
The Phone House SAS France, specialised in the sale of mobile telephony (GSM), computers, computer peripheral equipment and software, announced on 14 May 2007 that it will create 225 new stores in France. The company, the French subsidiary of the UK Carphone Warehouse Group, is aiming to have 500 stores or contact centres by the end of 2009, as a result of which it is expecting to create 1,000 new jobs before then. With 275 stores and 2,700 employees throughout the country, the company is the number one independent distributor of telecommunications in France, specialising in 2G and 3G mobile telephony, fixed telephony, broadband Internet access, double, triple and quadruple play offers and now GSM/Wi-fi.
Eurofound (2007), The Phone House SAS France, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 65346, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/65346.
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