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.
Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Cultural And Recreation Goods In Specialised Stores 47.64 - Retail Sale Of Sporting Equipment In Specialised Stores
1,100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 December 2023
Employment effect (start)
6 December 2023
Foreseen end date
31 March 2024
Description
Sports Unlimited Retail, the mother company of sport shop chains Sprinter, Perry Sport, and Aktiesport in the Netherlands, is declared bankrupt. 1100 jobs will be lost across approximately 54 shops in the Netherlands.
The company was converting Perry Sport and Aktiesport shops to Sprinter shops when the bankruptcy was announced. The previous mother company of Perry Sport and Aktiesport went bankrupt in 2016, JD took over 187 of the then 350 locations. Since then, both chains have been reducing their capacities.
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.
