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Wholesale / Retail Retail trade Non-specialised retail sale 47.12 - Other non-specialised retail sale
670 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 February 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2017
Foreseen end date
31 March 2017
Description
On 1 February 2017, German retail chain Strauss Innovation announced to cut 670 jobs due to filing for insolvency. The company has been struggling for years and had already cut 200 jobs in 2014 (Strauss Innovation, 2014).
Since 2014, Strauss Innovation filled for insolvency three times, the last time in December 2016. All of the remaining 40 stores as well as the administration department in Langenfeld near Düsseldorf will be closed in February and March 2017. A total of 17 stores were already closed in the last months.
A social plan was negotiated and the 670 employees were dismissed directly. No further details were released.
Sources
1 February 2017: Handelsblatt
26 February 2017: rp-online.de
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Strauss Innovation, Bankruptcy in Germany, factsheet number 90371, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90371.
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