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 IT company ITS group and its subsidiaries in France will recruit about 400 employees in 2019 to reinforce its teams. According to its website, 'ITS Group offers specialised added-value solutions and services and provides IT managers with an approach based on the optimisation and industrialisation of infrastructures and software'. The profiles most sought by the group are as follows: Production engineer, Systems engineer, Project manager, Mobility consultant, Service delivery manager, and Operations analyst.
ITS group supports companies in their digitalisation. Its turnover reached €125 million in 2018 (in comparison to €116 in 2017 and €108 in 2016). Two previous recruitments were announced in 2011 (250 job creations) and 2017 (300 job creations)
Eurofound (2019), ITS Group, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 97418, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/97418.
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