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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Manufacture Of Furniture 31.01 - Manufacture of office and shop furniture
New offshoring locations
Sweden
140 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 September 2013
Employment effect (start)
26 September 2013
Foreseen end date
30 June 2014
Description
Kinnarps, Swedish-based manufacturer of office furniture, will relocate its site from Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia) to Sweden thus making 140 people redundant. This is said to be due to increased efficiency.
The relocation shall be completed by the first half of 2014. In Minden, the company aims to open an “International Design Center”. There is no official information on the number of people to be employed, but it is suggested that only 10 people will be employed. The Kinnarps site in Worms is not affected.
Sources
25 September 2013: Kinnarps (Press release)
25 September 2013: Mindener Tageblatt (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Kinnarps, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 75950, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75950.
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