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.
West Midlands; Shropshire and Staffordshire; Staffordshire CC
Location of affected unit(s)
Burton om Trent
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Beverages 11.05 - Manufacture of beer
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 November 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
30 November 2008
Description
The brewers Coors has confirmed more than 200 jobs are to be shed until 2008 at its plant in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The company said the jobs are being cut as part of an ongoing process to cut costs by £50 million by 2008. It said the losses will be absorbed through retiring staff and others taking voluntary redundancy. Coors closed its Cape Hill brewery in Birmingham - which employed 320 people - in 2002.
Sources
1 November 2005: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Coors, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 62477, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62477.
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