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.
G-Manufacture aéronautique equipement (GMEA) will install in Vesoul (Doubs), a plant that will manufacture highly innovative flight suits for army pilots designed by the Swiss group G-Nius. The flight suits that will be manufactured from the beginning of the year 2019. GMEA has announced the recruitment of thirty people in September and October for cutting and assembly. Information meetings are organised at the local Public employment service (Pôle emploi) office in Vesoul. The profiles sought are people with or without experience who will be selected on the basis of dexterity tests and with a motivational interview. They will then be trained in a training center financed by the public authorities (GRETA). With this technology described as "disruptive", the manager, think to create 100 to 350 positions in the future according to the different estimates given to the press.
Eurofound (2018), G-Manufacture équipement aéronautique (GMEA), Business expansion in France, factsheet number 95462, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/95462.
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