The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
South West; Gloucestershire; Wiltshire and North Somerset
Location of affected unit(s)
Malmesbury
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.51 - Manufacture of electric domestic appliances
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 June 2014
Employment effect (start)
5 June 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
Engineering company Dyson has announced new job creation at its UK headquarters in Malmesbury, Wiltshire. It is recruiting for 400 engineers to join the company in 2014.
The jobs are part of a larger 25-year plan to create 3,000 new engineering jobs in the UK. It is thought that the numbers employed at the Malmesbury site could increase from 2,000 to 5,000. The new jobs are linked to the "ideas factory" division of the business; Dyson's Research and Development arm.
The jobs are further good news for the company which had previously announced job creation at the same site in 2012
Sources
5 June 2014: BBC Website
6 June 2014: Insider Media
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Dyson, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 77248, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77248.
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