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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32.4 - Manufacture of games and toys
130 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 June 2014
Employment effect (start)
6 June 2014
Foreseen end date
31 August 2014
Description
Nintendo is to cut 130 jobs at its site in Großostheim. As announced, the European headquarter of the Japanese company shall be transferred to Frankfurt. Currently, 430 people work in Großostheim; 300 of them will be offered to transfer to Frankfurt. Nintendo intends to shut down the site in Großostheim by August.
Nintendo announced to set up a social plan and a transfer agency. There will be negotiations with the works council.
Nintendo is a Japanese manufacturer of games consoles with 6,000 workforce globally (1,100 of them in Germany). In the previous year, the company reported a loss of more than €164 million which is the main reason for the restructuring plans.
Sources
7 June 2014: Heise
6 June 2014: Frankfurter Rundschau
7 June 2014: Golem
20 June 2014: BR
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Nintendo, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 77182, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77182.
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