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.
(46 - 47) Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale 47.11 - Non-specialised retail sale of predominately food, beverages or tobacco
1,000 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 November 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2009
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
Coop Sverige, which operated chain stores, is to lay off 1000 employees in Sweden from various business areas in the company. The job cuts are a result of a savings plan and it is planned to carry them out in 2009.
Coop Sverige operates shops in chains like Coop Forum, Coop Extra, Coop Konsum, Coop Nära, and Coop Bygg. Together with the retail consumer cooperative societies, Coop Sverige accounts for 21.4% of the entire Swedish FMCG sector. Coop Sverige is wholly owned by KF.
Sources
6 November 2008: Svenska Dagbladet
6 November 2008: Dagens Industri
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Coop, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 67415, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/67415.
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...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
The more employee monitoring resembles surveillance – with its systematic, continuous and detailed tracking of employees' activities, behaviours or communications – the greater the potential for infringement of both privacy and data protection rights. Although the EU General Data Protection...
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...