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 ship building group DCNS announced the recruitment of 100 people by 2018. The positions are mainly engineers and managers. The manager of the site of Ollioule (Var), explains in an interview that currently 1,200 employees are working there and that the number of workers will reach 1,300 within a year. DCNS has won a huge contract with the Australian government to build 12 submarines for a total amount of €34 million. The site of Ollioule is specialised in the design and implementation of combat management systems and combat systems for surface vessels and submarines. The group employs 13,000 people on 12 sites in France. Job creation are recorded on the ERM database in 2012 (700 job creations) and in 2011 (100 job creations) but also a restructuring in 2011 (150 job losses).
Eurofound (2017), DCNS, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 90244, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/90244.
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