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, Printing And Reproduction Of Recorded Media Printing And Reproduction Of Recorded Media 18 - Printing and reproduction of recorded media
280 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
29 April 2011
Employment effect (start)
29 April 2011
Foreseen end date
31 July 2011
Description
On 29 April 2011, the printing company Schlott announced to close its site in Freudenberg, Baden-Wurttemberg. All 280 jobs will be lost by the end of July 2011. Schlott has gone bankrupt and its insolvency manager has failed to find an investor for the site in Freudenberg while negotiations with investors on the future of Schlott facilities in Luebeck, Landau and Nuremberg are still going on.
Sources
29 April 2011: Biegelaar.nl
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Schlott, Bankruptcy in Germany, factsheet number 71903, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71903.
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