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.
West Midlands; Herefordshire; Worcestershire and Warwickshire
Location of affected unit(s)
Hereford
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26 - Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
50 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 October 2008
Employment effect (start)
10 October 2008
Foreseen end date
25 December 2008
Description
Dytecna Ltd, a manufacturing company that operates in the communications sector, has announced that it is to create 50 jobs in Hereford, Worcestershire by opening a maintenance depot. The company hopes to have the new depot open by Christmas 2008. The company currently employs 310 people at its sites in Malvern and Hereford. The expansion comes as a result of winning new contracts worth up to thirty million GBP, including a deal with BAE Systems worth twenty million GBP.
Sources
10 October 2008: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Dytecna, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67214, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67214.
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