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
New offshoring locations
230 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 April 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
30 November 2007
Description
On 27 April 2007, mobile phone producer Motorola announced its plans to cut 230 jobs at its production site in Flensburg. The production of UMTS devices will be shifted to Asia by fall 2007. Motorola currently employs approximately 2,500 people at four sites in Germany: Flensburg, Berlin, München and Taunusstein. The Flensburg plant was established in 1998 and is one of the most advanced mobile phone production plants worldwide, according to Motorola. The production of UMTS devices will be shifted to China because of the growing Asian market. "We have to move where the markets are", the CEO said. He expects only the production of higher priced mobile phones to stay in Germany. In June 2007 management and works council agreed on a social plan.
Sources
17 June 2007: Tagesspiegel
19 June 2007: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
27 April 2007: Handelsblatt
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Motorola GmbH, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 65290, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65290.
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