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 Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
New offshoring locations
Czechia
370 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 January 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
Inventec Scotland Servers is closing down in the west of Scotland with the loss of hundreds of jobs. Inventec, based in Hillington, near Glasgow, announced that it will cut about 370 full and part-time posts when the plant shuts later in the year. The company is transferring production to the Czech Republic. A spokesman for the company said 'It has been decided that the best course for the company in a highly competitive global marketplace is to transfer all manufacturing and service operations for server products currently manufactured at Hillington to Inventec's plant at Brno in the Czech Republic.'
Sources
10 January 2006: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Inventec Scotland Servers, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 62772, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62772.
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