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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Other Specialised Wholesale 46.72 - Wholesale of metals and metal ores
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
8 August 2012
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
30 June 2013
Description
German steel supplier Klöckner & Co has announced to cut 200 jobs in Germany. The management stated that decreasing demand and a difficult economic outlook made this measure unavoidable.
Klöckner & Co currently employs 2,000 employees in Germany. This new round of restructuring follows previous rounds where several hundred jobs in Germany have been cut.
The planned job cuts in Germany are part of a Europe-wide restructuring plan affecting 1,300 jobs in Spain, France and Eastern Europe.
Sources
8 August 2012: Handelsblatt
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Klöckner&Co, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 73986, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73986.
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