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 Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Textiles 13 - Manufacture of textiles
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 November 2010
Employment effect (start)
31 December 2010
Foreseen end date
Description
About two hundred workers are to be made redundant over a phsed fifteen month period at Trallee-based textile plant, Burlington. The textiles plant employs 900 workers, but this will drop to about 700 following a rationalisation programme. However, Burlington has promised to spend £1.5million on the Tralee plant to provide new equipment "to make the operations more competitive". The Tralee cutbacks announced by Burlington are part of a rationalisation programme designed to "improve productivity and reduce the unit cost of the fabrics it manufactures".
Sources
17 November 2010: Kerryman
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Burlington, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 71451, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71451.
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