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.
149 jobs are to be created in Belfast as a result of a multi-million pound investment by the Bank of Ireland Group. The 149 are in the specialist area of hedge fund management.
The bank's group chief executive Brian Goggin said the decision to set up the operation in Belfast was because of the quality of the people available. Bank of Ireland has 44 branches and eight business centres in Northern Ireland, employing 1,300 staff.
Invest Northern Ireland has offered support of over £2m towards the initiative, which was announced on July 26th by First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
Eurofound (2007), Bank of Ireland Group, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 65637, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/65637.
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...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
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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...
