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Arts / Entertainment Arts, Entertainment And Culture Gambling And Betting Activities 92 - Gambling and betting activities
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 December 2010
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2011
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
On 20 December 2010, Bwin, a listed online gaming provider, announced a merger with the British online gaming company PartyGaming, thereby making at least 100 of its 800 employees redundant.
A part of the dismissals should take the form of natural attrition. The jobs are to be transferred from the Vienna Bwin headquarters to PartyGaming's headquarter in Gibraltar. Currently, some 500 out of the 800 employees are IT workers. The merger is to be finalised by the end of the first quarter 2011.
Sources
20 December 2010: Wirtschaftsblatt
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Bwin, Merger/Acquisition in Austria, factsheet number 71345, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71345.
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