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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
178 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 July 2007
Employment effect (start)
27 July 2007
Foreseen end date
1 October 2007
Description
Euro-Auto Hose, a French automotive parts supplier based in Nevers, has been declared bankrupt and is to consequently make its 178 employees redundant. Redundancies will begin to be made immediately after the declaration of bankruptcy and will continue until the site is definitively closed on October 1st 2007. A receiver has been appointed and will be given responsibility for selling the site's machinery in order to re-pay some of the funds owed to creditors. The firm has experienced financial problems for the last few years and has also recently encountered problems with its shareholders. The firm is owned by Greencool, a Chinese group, and was previously owned by French tyre manufacturer Michelin.
Sources
31 July 2007: La Croix
30 July 2007: AFP
1 July 2007: L'Expansion
30 July 2007: Les Echos
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Euro-Auto Hose, Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 65654, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65654.
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