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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Leather And Related Products 15.20 - Manufacture of footwear
170 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 February 2016
Employment effect (start)
10 February 2016
Foreseen end date
29 February 2016
Description
Footwear manufacturer Clark announced a reorganisation that will result in the loss of 170 jobs in England. Workers affected by the reorganisation are mostly employed in Street in Somerset, where 1,230 workers were employed. The head office is also located in Street. Other jobs will be lost in a UK-based distribution centre and in Boston in the USA. The UK redundancies will take effect by the end of February 2016. Clarks first commenced trading almost two hundred years ago using their tannery to make sheepskin slippers.
Sources
11 February 2016: BBC News England
10 February 2016: Central Somerset Gazette
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Clarks, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 86487, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86487.
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