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Information / Communication Publishing Of Information; Production And Programming Of Audiovisual Publishing Activities 58 - Publishing activities
210 - 250 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 June 2004
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007
Description
Publisher Wolters Kluwer's subsidiary Kluwer will cut 250 jobs, the company said on 30 June 2004. The restructuring focuses on reaching a balanced and consolidated product and service supply, Wolters Kluwer added. Kluwer, publisher of fiscal, financial, legal and management issues, aims at a structural improvement of its operating results in the next three years through restructuring and innovative programmes. These plans are in line with the earlier announced strategy of Wolters Kluwer for the whole concern. Negotiations with the trade unions and the company's works council have started. Kluwer has over 1,500 employees. In November 2004, 210 jobs of the 250 announced earlier had been shed : 80 in Alphen, 120 in Deventer and 10 in Amsterdam and Den Haag.
Sources
30 June 2004: De Financiële Telegraaf
2 November 2004: DowJones Newswires
Citation
Eurofound (2004), Kluwer, Merger/Acquisition in Netherlands, factsheet number 60591, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60591.
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