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 Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Leather And Related Products 15.12 - Manufacture of luggage, handbags and the like, saddlery and harness
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 March 2022
Employment effect (start)
22 March 2022
Foreseen end date
31 March 2023
Description
Ateliers de Vitré (formerly Maison Texier) has announced the recruitment of 100 employees over the next 12 months in Vitré. The company is looking for 80 leatherworkers and 20 fitters, technicians, and logisticians. Both experienced and unexperienced profiles are welcome, as candidates will be internally trained. In 2021, the company has launched a €1.3 million investment programme to bring its industrial facilities, i.e., its machines, up to the highest level of excellence and to digitalise the production chain. The company received €75,000 in support from the France Recovery Plan.
Ateliers de Vitré is a subcontractor for major luxury brands and currently employs 160 people, including 140 craftsmen. In 2015 the company was acquired by Renaissance Luxury Group.
Eurofound (2022), Ateliers de Vitré, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 106544, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106544.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
