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.
British legal and accounting services company PwC has announced plans to create 300 new jobs in the Financial Crime Unit at the company's competence centre in Gdańsk within the next two years. Established in 2012, the Financial Crime Unit (FCU) specialises in money laundry prevention. The expansion of the centre comes in response to the growing pressure put by regulatory and supervisory authorities on the compliance with the provisions on counteracting money laundering and financing of terrorism.
PwC operates in 158 countries and employs around 250,000 people worldwide. The company has been operating in Poland for 28 years and as of November 2018, operates two shared services centres (Katowice and Opole), a Competence Centre in Gdańsk and eight regional offices across the country.
Eurofound (2018), PwC, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 95838, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/95838.
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...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
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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...
