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Construction Specialised Construction Activities Specialised Construction Activities 43.32 - Joinery installation
108 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 January 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
On 21 January 2013, the group Clestra announced plans to cut about 108 positions out of a total of 700 employees in France.
The management has presented a social plan to the Commercial court of Strasbourg, in the framework of a receivership process. The company aims to avoid forced dismissals with voluntary departures. It gave no details on job cuts location, but the main factory is in Illkirch-Graffenstaden that employs 500 employees will probably be affected.
Clestra specializes in the design, production and installation of system partitions. It employs more than 1,250 people in Europe and in Asia. The main production sites are located in Strasbourg (FR), Taicang (China), Pune (India) and Gumi (South Korea). Clestra is a subsidiary of group Clestra-Hausermann that belong to the group Windhurst.
Sources
21 January 2013: Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (www.dna.fr)
Eurofound (2013), Clestra, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 74797, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74797.
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