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.
Professional Services Market Research And Advertising Services Advertising And Market Research 73 - Advertising and market research
120 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
31 March 2015
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Market research company Norstat has announced that it is closing down its office in Karlstad, Sweden, giving notice to 120 people. The activities of the Karlstad office, focused on telephone polling, will be taken over by Norstat's main office in Linköping. Of the 124 people at the office in Karlstad only eight are full-time employees, the remaining 118 are part-time employees. Four of the full-time employees have been offered new jobs in Lindköping. Norstat is a Norwegian owned company with offices in all Scandinavian countries. It employs a total of 160 people in Sweden.
Sources
31 March 2015: Sveriges Radio
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Norstat, Closure in Sweden, factsheet number 79144, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79144.
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