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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32.3 - Manufacture of sports goods
New offshoring locations
Romania, Bulgaria, Austria
284 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 January 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2008
Foreseen end date
31 December 2008
Description
The French ski maker Salomon, which is part of Finnish group Amer Sports, has announced that it is to cut 284 jobs in France between February and December 2008. This will be the third redundancy plan in three years at Salomon. In December 2008, the production of skis at company's site in Rumilly in Haute-Savoie will end, and all Salomon skis will then be manufactured outside France, in Romania, Bulgaria and Austria. The Rumilly site will be converted by the Amer Sports Group to the production of of wheels for Mavic bicycles (employing 116 people).
Sources
12 January 2008: Le Monde
11 January 2008: La Tribune
11 January 2008: Le Figaro
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Salomon, Offshoring/Delocalisation in France, factsheet number 66182, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66182.
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