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 For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
250 - 400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
2 September 2002
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
1 December 2002
Description
Management of IHC Caland proposed the restructuration plan on October the 1st to the trade unions. Announcement had already been made on the 2 September 2002. Negotiations are following.
August 2003, IHC Caland is closing the site of Van der Giessen-de Noord for the reason that the building of cruse ships and ferries is not profitable anymore: 400 jobs suppressed.
Sources
25 August 2003: NRC Handelsblad
2 September 2002: NRC Handelsblad
3 September 2002: NRC Handelsblad
Citation
Eurofound (2002), Van der Giessen-de Noord, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 58897, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/58897.
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