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.
Der Spiegel, German news magazine, will cut 149 out of 730 jobs in Hamburg by the end of 2016. This job reduction will include 35 employees from the print-edition department, 14 employees from documentation and 100 employees from its publishing house. Since 2007, the Spiegel Publishing house has seen its turnover and profits drop by 19% and 48%. The job cuts, which will not affect the newspaper's online and TV divisions, will mostly be carried out in 2016.
Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine based in Hamburg. It was founded in 1947 and currently employs around 1,200 staff in Germany including 730 employees in Hamburg.
Eurofound (2015), Der Spiegel, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 85707, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/85707.
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...
