Type
Business expansion
Country
France
Region
Centre-Est; Rhône-Alpes; Drôme
Location of affected unit(s)
Montélimar (Drôme)
Sector
Retail
Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles
Wholesale Of Other Machinery, Equipment And Supplies
46.62 - Wholesale of machine tools

300 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
29 June 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2007
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007

Description

The Würth group, a German distributor of professional products of tools, announced on 29 June 2006 its plans to open its twelfth site in France, a 15,000 square metre unit in Montélimar (Drôme). The company is expecting to create 125 new jobs in 2007.

In February 2007 the company announced that instead of the 125 jobs initially planned 300 jobs will be created before the end of 2007.

The Würth Group has 52,000 employees in more than 80 countries and a sales turnover of 7 billion Euros in 2005.


Sources

  • 29 June 2006: Agence France Presse
  • 23 February 2007: Les Echos

Citation

Eurofound (2006), Würth Drôme, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 63697, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63697.