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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Manufacture Of Furniture 31 - Manufacture of furniture
500 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
23 January 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
Hill-Rom, manufacturer of hospital beds and medical furniture, has announced to cut about 500 positions world-wide, mainly in the USA with 250 job cuts and 94 in its plant of Pluvignier (424 employees, Morbihan) in France. The management of Hill-Rom in France justifies this reorganisation by recurrent lower hospital budgets that limit purchases of hospital beds and furniture for patient rooms .
Sources
24 January 2014: L'usine Nouvelle
23 January 2014: Ouest France
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Hill-Rom, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 76593, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76593.
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