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.
K. Line, the leading manufacturer of aluminium carpentry for doors and windows, has announced that it will hire 350 employees by the end of 2018 to work at the company's four factories in Les Herbiers (Vendée) and Saint-Vulbas (Ain). The company is looking for automatic line drivers, production managers, security and quality assurance, logistics, commercial, purchasing, finance and marketing. It will recruit 200 more employees in the four factories located at Les Herbier in 2018. 150 recruitments are also expected at the site of Saint-Vulbas, where K. Line had already hired 64 people in 2017. K-Line reached a turnover of €270 million in 2016 and employed 1,200 employees.
In 2017, K. Line hired 151 people for its s and expected to recruit 30 employees by the end of 2017.
Eurofound (2017), K.Line, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 92916, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/92916.
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