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.
CMA CGM, a French group of companies which is the third largest container shipping organization worldwide, will create 500 new jobs within the next five years. The Group was granted the right to operate and develop Malta Freeport under a 30-year privatization deal signed in October 2004. Before that, the Malta Freeport was operated by a person appointed by the Government of Malta. At present, 232 persons work at Malta Freeport Terminals Limited in Marsaxlokk. Under a new agreement with the government, the Group committed itself to invest EUR 130 million on an extension of the Malta Freeport, while the government extended its lease by five years with a further possible extension of another 30 years.
Eurofound (2008), Malta Freeport Terminals Limited, Business expansion in Malta, factsheet number 66259, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/66259.
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...
