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.
Utilities Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management And Remediation Activities Waste Collection, Treatment And Disposal Activities; Materials Recovery 38.32 - Recovery of sorted materials
New offshoring locations
Not Available
270 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
3 April 2010
Employment effect (start)
3 April 2010
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
On 3 April 2010, the telecommunications provider Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) announced plans to cut 270 jobs at its German site in Bruchsal. A representative of the union told the press that production is to be outsourced to India and repairing activities to East-Asia and the company later confirmed this report, stating that the production site in Bruchsal was to be restructured and a new concept for its future existence implemented. Nokia Siemens is currently cutting up to 6,000 jobs worldwide (see related factsheet).
Sources
3 April 2010: Stuttgarter Zeitung
3 April 2010: Stuttgarter Zeitung
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Nokia Siemens Networks, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 70453, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70453.
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