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.
On 8 March 2012, German domestic appliances manufacturer and supplier BSH (Bosch and Siemens Household Appliances) announced plans to hire 200 people at the new Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), which is being created in Łódź, Poland.
The centre will provide accounting and other back office services for the BSH units and factories all over the world. The company has started to recruit staff. Candidates must have foreign language skills, especially English and German.
BSH has started locating back office services in Poland by the creating an IT department there, back in 2009.BSH has been operating in Poland since 1993, where has 3 factories, R&D centre, IT centre and logistics centre. The company employs over 2,000 people in two Polish cities: Łódź and Warszawa.
Eurofound (2012), BSH, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 73546, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/73546.
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