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 Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26 - Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
270 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
24 April 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
On 24 April 2009, Toshiba, the Japanese electronics group, announced that it is ending production of television sets at its factory in Plymouth, England (by late August 2009) and that these operations will be taken over by a new factory in Poland. 270 workers out of the 320 now employed in Plymouth will lose their jobs; the same number of staff will be hired at the new Polish plant, whose location is still unknown.
Sources
24 April 2009: Polska Agencja Prasowa Webside (www.pap.pl)
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Toshiba, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 68875, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68875.
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