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, a multi-national manufacturer of consumer goods, is to cut 314 jobs at sites in Port Sunlight, Warrington, and Burton-on-Trent by September 2008. 140 employees are to be dismissed from the Port Sunlight plant, 60 from the Warrington plant, and 114 at the firm’s Burton-on-Trent site. Management at the firm have attributed the job losses to the need to cut costs at the organization. In a statement, Joao Ribeiro, Port Sunlight and Warrington works director, and Mark Wearing, factory manager at Burton, said: 'Full consultation with employees and union representatives will get under way immediately. This change will take 12 months to complete and throughout this period we will be offering an extensive employee support programme to assist all staff.'
Dave Lewis, UK Chairman of Unilever, said that the announcements marked a 'significant step forward in increasing the responsiveness of our manufacturing in the UK'
Unilever has also stated that it will now start a review of three more of its UK sites in Essex, Leeds and Crumlin.
Eurofound (2007), Unilever, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 65832, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/65832.
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