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.
US eye care firm Alcon Laboratories has announced that it is to expand its Cork plant, investing over €20 million, and creating 186 new jobs. The expansion of the plant will result in a doubling of the existing workforce of 200 over the course of the next five years.
Alcon manufactures intraocular lens, a prosthetic lens that replaces the eye's natural lens after cataract surgery.
Eurofound (2008), Alcon Laboratories, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 67088, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/67088.