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.
Lighthouse Studios, a joint initiative of Cartoon Saloon and Mercury Filmworks, is to create 140 jobs in Kilkenny over the next three years. The jobs will be in production management, design, animation, effects art, composition, technical direction, 3D modelling, rigging, lighting and texture art, and IT administration. The new Lighthouse Studios will produce "high-quality children’s and family animated content development and end-to-end production services – from scriptwriting, design, storyboard, animation and compositing to post-production services – to a global client base" (Silicon Republic.com). The jobs expansion is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation through IDA Ireland.
Eurofound (2017), Lighthouse Studios, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 90160, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/90160.
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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