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 Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26 - Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
29 June 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2006
Foreseen end date
29 December 2006
Description
Kodak France (Eastman Kodak Company) has announced that Kodak France (X-ray film-finishing operations in Châlon sur Saône; currently: 500 employees) should cut 300 jobs before January 2007. Kodak France has declared that it wants to permanently end (shortly) its activities of X-ray - radiographic films. Kodak would wish to reindustrialize the site (Châlon sur Saône), which will devoted to traditional photography, employing the remaining 200 people. In the first half of 2006, Kodak France already cut 330 jobs in Châlon sur Saône. Kodak France and CEPL (French company, leader of photographs for industry) are negotiating and approximately 100 Kodak employees could be offered a job by CEPL.
Sources
30 June 2006: The Wall Street Journal Europe
30 June 2006: La Tribune
30 June 2006: Les Echos
30 June 2006: Le Figaro
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Kodak, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 63700, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63700.
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