McCormick

Type
Offshoring/Delocalisation
Country
United Kingdom
Region
Yorkshire and The Humber; South Yorkshire; Doncaster
Location of affected unit(s)
Doncaster
Sector
Manufacturing
(28) Manufacture of machinery and equipment
28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
New offshoring locations
Italy
325 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
19 December 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date

Description

A tractor factory in Doncaster is to close with the loss of 325 jobs. Workers at the McCormick assembly plant were told on Monday that production is to switch to Italy in the new year. The move will bring to an end 57 years of tractor production at the site. Only 25 of the 350 employees will remain in the sales and spare parts divisions. Italian industrial group ARGO, which took over the company in 2001, said the business had been loss-making for the past four years. A three-month period of negotiation with the unions started on Monday.

Sources

  • 19 December 2006: BBC Website

Citation

Eurofound (2006), McCormick, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64683, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64683.