Global Garden Products

Type
Offshoring/Delocalisation
Country
Italy
Region
Nord-Est; Veneto; Treviso
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Manufacturing
(28) Manufacture of machinery and equipment
28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
New offshoring locations
Slovakia
230 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
10 May 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2011
Foreseen end date
30 September 2012

Description

Global Garden Products announced its decision to move its production from Italy to Slovakia, resulting in 230 job losses over 2 years.

Global Garden Products, one of the leading manufacturers in Europe of lawn mowers, is to move its production of 250,000 mowers (under the brand Castelgarden) from Treviso, in the North of Italy, to Slovakia. The delocalisation process will cause 160 job-losses in 2011, and 70 job-cuts in 2012.

Around 650 workers are employed in the Treviso plant. In 2010 the company made a loss of EUR 10 million. The trade unions organised protest actions against the company's decision.

Sources

  • 14 May 2011: Milano Finanza

Citation

Eurofound (2011), Global Garden Products, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Italy, factsheet number 72212, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/72212.