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 Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Beverages 11.05 - Manufacture of beer
New offshoring locations
Hungary, Czechia
259 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
23 February 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Following its cost-cutting strategy, the management of InBev, a brewery group announced its third restructuring in Belgium in four months. Financial and administrative units will be delocalised to Hungary and the Czech Republic. Moreover, a relocation has been announced from Hoegaarden (Province of Flemish Brabant, Flanders) to Jupille (Province of Liège, Wallonia). In total, 259 people are to lose their jobs: 219 in the framework of early retirement or outplacement within the group and 40 will be made redundant.
Eurofound (2006), InBev, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Belgium, factsheet number 63070, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63070.
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