GN ReSound

Type
Offshoring/Delocalisation
Country
Ireland
Region
Ireland; Southern;
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Manufacturing
(22 - 23) Manufacture of rubber, plastic and non-metallic minerals
22 - Manufacture of rubber and plastic products
22 - Manufacture of rubber and plastic products
New offshoring locations
Denmark
180 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
19 January 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date

Description

In January 2006, GN ReSound,a hearing-aid manufacturing company, announced that it is to close in Cork with the loss of 180 jobs - just 18 months after the Irish Government promised it would expand. GN ReSound is to close its Cork facility and transfer all manufacturing to its base in China and all administrative functions to its parent company in Denmark. The company set up operations in Ireland in 1994. Employees are non-unionised.

Sources

  • 6 January 2020: The Irish Times

Citation

Eurofound (2006), GN ReSound, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Ireland, factsheet number 62825, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/62825.