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.
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150 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
7 January 2021
Employment effect (start)
18 January 2021
Foreseen end date
1 February 2021
Description
The Commercial Court of Lyon has ordered the compulsory liquidation of Entreprise de Sondage Lyon (ESL), a former subsidiary of TNS Sofres. The company, bought from the Kantar group in 2018 by Hichem Guerfali, has a debt of €2 million, according to the SUD trade union, which points to systemic delays in the payment of salaries in 2020. Out of the 150 employees, permanent staff, around 100, should be made redundant at the end of January with the implementation of an employment safeguard plan.
Eurofound (2021), Entreprise de Sondages de Lyon (ESL), Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 103008, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103008.
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