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.
Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles 47 - Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
150 - 180 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 January 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2006
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
The Austrian mail-order house Quelle, a subsidiary of the German Karstadt Quelle concern, will dismiss between 150 and 180 employees out of about 1,800, amongst them some executive staff, by the beginning of 2007. This was announced by Wolfgang Binder, the CEO of the company headquartered in Linz, upper Austria. The measure is part of an encompassing restructuring programme the firm has been submitted since autumn 2005. According to this programme, all of the existing 10 technics shops throughout the country are planned to be closed down by 2007.
Sources
10 January 2006: Wirtschaftsblatt
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Quelle, Internal restructuring in Austria, factsheet number 62812, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62812.
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