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 Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25 - Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 March 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
BAe Systems, a defence contractor, is to create 150 jobs at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. The jobs are being created as the company has won the contract to maintain the RAF's Typhoon aircraft. BAe systems employs 105,000 people worldwide, although no data is available about how many of these work at RAF Coningsby. As of 8 March 2009, no date has been set for the creation of these jobs.
Sources
4 March 2009: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2009), BAE Systems, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68452, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68452.
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