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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale Of Household Goods 46.46 - Wholesale of pharmaceutical goods
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
31 March 2023
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2023
Foreseen end date
31 December 2023
Description
Alliance Healthcare Répartition (AHR), Europe's leading pharmaceutical distribution and healthcare products wholesaler, has announced a reorganisation of its sites in France, with the closure of 5 out of 45 centres and the loss of around 100 jobs. The Auray, Angoulême, Auxerre, Niort and Pau sites are affected.
The company has been taken over by drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen in 2021. AHR has 45 sites in France and employs 2,000 people. Accompanying measures are being negotiated.
Eurofound (2023), Alliance Healthcare Repartition, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 109136, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/109136.
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