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.
Yorkshire and the Humber; South Yorkshire; Barnsley
Location of affected unit(s)
Barnsley
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Wearing Apparel 14 - Manufacture of wearing apparel
189 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
29 January 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 March 2005
Description
189 jobs are to go at a clothing firm in Barnsley because of an anticipated slowdown in orders. SR Gent says the sewing factory will close in March 2005 with 145 workers being made redundant. A further 44 jobs are being lost in other areas of the plant which makes clothes for a number of retailers including Marks and Spencer. 450 administration and distribution jobs will be left at the Barnsley site. SR Gent was once one of South Yorkshire's major employers with factories in Barnsley, Rotherham, South Kirkby and Sheffield.
All have gradually been closed and the Dodworth Road site is the firm's last UK manufacturing base with most of its clothes now being produced abroad.
Sources
29 January 2005: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2005), SR Gent, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61082, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61082.
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