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.
The world’s leading exchange operator Nasdaq is to create 200 new jobs in its service centre in Vilnius over the next 2-3 years. Currently the service centre employs 127 employees. The Nasdaq technology and business support competence centre in Vilnius was officially opened on 13 October, 2015. The Nasdaq group has positively assessed the first development phase of the centre and decided to further expand in Lithuania. The centre provides support and develops IT infrastructure for financial markets, performs finance and accounting as well as other functions to listed companies and financial institutions worldwide.
Eurofound (2016), Nasdaq Vilnius Services, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 86811, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86811.
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...
