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.
Swiss supplier of abrasives sia Abrasives, a subsidiary of Bosch, has announced that it will create 260 new jobs in next few months in the Goleniów Industrial Park (Goleniów, Poland). The company has already started the construction of the new production halls which is expected to be completed in 2017 and plans to invest about PLN 80 million (EUR 18.26 million USD 20.88 million) in the project.
Sia Abrasives has been operating for over 130 years. The company was acquired by Bosch in 2008. The company develops, produces and sells products and technology for abrasive processes. Currently, the company operates in over 80 countries and employs over 1,300 people worldwide. In Goleniów, the company employs 140 wor
Eurofound (2016), sia Abrasives, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 89058, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/89058.
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...
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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...
