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.
Bulgari, a leading company in the manufacture of jewelry, announced the hiring of at least 130 employees in its facilities at Valenza Po (Alessandria). The decision is the result of a plan started in 2014, when the company decided create the largest jewelry factory in Europe in Valenza Po, restructuring the already existing site, building up a new productive facility and moving to the new area the staff employed in the nearby factory of Solonghello. The plan is to be completed by June 2016. Bulgari is already seeking for new staff. Once the site is operational, headcount in the industrial site should provide additional employment for 130 employees, adding to the 350 persons currently employed in Valenza Po and Solonghello. The company wishes to further increase its employment level in the area up to 600-700 workers should the production level increase according to expectation.
Eurofound (2015), Bulgari, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 83778, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/83778.
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