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 Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26.12 - Manufacture Of Loaded Electronic Boards
No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
20 May 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 May 2016
Foreseen end date
1 December 2017
Description
Fideltronik is a Polish electronics manufacturing company. According to the sources below, the CEO has decided to reduce the workforce at its Herrlijunga plant in Sweden. It is expected that 75 employees, out of a total of 140 at the site, will be made redundant. Sources state that the move is in response to a request from the company's largest customer, who wants to see production returned to Poland. Accordig to Fideltronik's website, the company initially invested in Sweden in 2007, however, the Herrlljunga plant was only acquired in 2013.
Eurofound (2016), Fideltronik, Reshoring in Poland, factsheet number 191, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/191.
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