Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
Unilever, a multi-national group that produces a range of domestic, hygiene, and food products, has announced that it is to cut 190 jobs in Germany within the next two years. Job cuts in Germany are part of Unilever’s global restructuring programme.
Unilever currently employs some 1,000 employees in Germany. The restructuring programme affecting business activities in Germany, Switzerland and Austria will be managed at the group’s headquarters in Hamburg.
In May 2007, the group announced the cut of 20,000 jobs worldwide (see related world factsheet).
Eurofound (2007), Unilever, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 66118, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/66118.