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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21.20 - Manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations
New offshoring locations
Belgium, France
125 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
19 September 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 November 2020
Foreseen end date
Description
The pharmaceutical laboratory Gifrer has announced 125 job cuts on a total workforce of 215 employees at its historic site at Décines-Charpieu (Rhône), near Lyon. The production department in charhe of making oxigenated water will be closed. Production will therefore stop at Décines and be relocated, partly to Belgium and partly to subcontractors in France.
The management said that this decision is a response to the obsolescence of the Décines factory, which has had an impact on the operating result for nearly ten years.
Eurofound (2020), Gifrer-Barbezat, Offshoring/Delocalisation in France, factsheet number 101883, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/101883.
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