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 For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
450 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 January 2008
Employment effect (start)
21 January 2008
Foreseen end date
1 September 2008
Description
Dutch sole passenger car producer announced on 17 January 2008 that it is to create 450 new jobs in the coming nine months. The recruitment process will start in January. The company sent more than a thousand letters to former employees who were made redundant due to the restructuring in 2006. Many of the employees hit by the previous restucturing have shown interest to return. The jobs are created to produce the cross country vehicle Outlander.
Sources
30 January 2008: Het Financieele Dagblad
Citation
Eurofound (2008), NedCar, Business expansion in Netherlands, factsheet number 66243, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66243.
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