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 French company Edenred, specialised in payment solutions for the working world carried out via mobile applications, online platforms and cards, has announced plans to create 200 new positions at its digital centre in Bucharest till 2020. The centre was inaugurated in April 2019. The Edenred Digital Center is currently hiring: Mobile Tech Leads, Senior and junior developers, Build Release Managers, Cloud Operations Analysts, Level 3 IT Experts for Exchange & Office365, Oracle & Linux, Infrastructure Security Engineers. The company’s strategy for the digital hub is to develop new solutions and platforms for different subsidiaries.
Worldwide, Edenred, headquartered in Paris, employs about 8,000 people.
Eurofound (2019), Edenred Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 97719, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/97719.
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...
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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...
