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.
Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne) and Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (Nièvre)
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Chemicals And Chemical Products 20.4 - Manufacture of soap and detergents, cleaning and polishing preparations, perfumes and toilet preparations
478 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
21 November 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2009
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
The French subsidiary of the German chemical products group Henkel has announced that it would close two sites in France in 2009 involving the loss of 478 jobs to cope with the economic downturn and to boost its competitiveness.
Quoting "a particularly unfavourable" economic climate, Henkel Technologies France said in a statement it was closing its offices in Châlons-en-Champagne and Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire while reorganising its laboratories on a third site.
The company manufactures detergents, adhesives and cosmetics. It blamed difficulties facing France's ailing car industry for the closures, but also mentioned the move by packaging and markets to eastern Europe as factoring into the Châlones closure.
Sources
24 November 2008: Les Echos
24 November 2008: Le Monde
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Henkel, Closure in France, factsheet number 67448, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67448.
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