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European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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Hill-Rom, manufacturer of hospital beds and medical furniture, has announced to cut about 500 positions world-wide, mainly in the USA with 250 job cuts and 94 in its plant of Pluvignier (424 employees, Morbihan) in France. The management of Hill-Rom in France justifies this reorganisation by recurrent lower hospital budgets that limit purchases of hospital beds and furniture for patient rooms .
Eurofound (2014), Hill-Rom, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 76593, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/76593.