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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.4 - Manufacture of electric lighting equipment
New offshoring locations
Various EU Locations
150 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 May 2014
Employment effect (start)
6 May 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
Thorn Lighting, a global manufacturer and supplier of light fittings and systems, will cut 150 jobs when it relocates its production activities from Landskrona. The job cuts will be in the area of production. The company will retain 100 jobs at the site in the sales department.
According to the source, the company is moving its production activities to another European country where the company expects that wages and fixed costs will be lower. The company is part of the Austrian group Zumbotel and this relocation is part of a wider organisational restructuring to merge the two brands Zumbotel and Thorn. As part of this restructuring, between 4 and 6 of Zumbotel’s 18 plants worldwide will be closed, sold or undergo cuts. Thorn Lighting has entered into negotiations with trade unions regarding the job cuts.
Sources
6 May 2014: Helsingborgs Dagblad
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Thorn Lighting, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 76955, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76955.
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