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.
Polish supplier of military equipment Zakłady Mechaniczne Bumar-Łabędy has announced that it will increase its workforce by 15% within the next two years meaning that about 120 additional employees will be hired in the plant in Gliwice. The restructuring programme is associated with the production and modernization of Leopard tanks. The company plans to invest over PLN 20 million (EUR 4.61 million USD 5.24 million) in this project. The company is looking for highly specialised welders, fitters and electricians.
Zakłady Mechaniczne Bumar-Łabędy was founded in 1938 in Gliwice; the company is a part of Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa consisting of 50 manufacturing and trading companies specialised in the production of munitions, radars, rockets, armour, tanks and other military equipment. Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa employs 17,500 people, including 816 in the unit in Gliwice.
Eurofound (2016), Zakłady Mechaniczne Bumar-Łabędy, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 87668, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/87668.
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