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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.20 - Activities of call centres
140 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
21 November 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2018
Foreseen end date
1 March 2018
Description
Impact Field Marketing has announced a 140 jobs cut following the decision of the Korean group Samsung to outsource its commercial activities to CPM, a subsidiary of Omnicom Group, another market leader in outsourcing of commercial activities. As a result, the 140 commercial employed on permanent employment contracts for ten years to promote Samsung's products in France will all be dismissed in January 2018. CPM has indicated that it does not plan to take over the 140 employees. Impact Field Marketing currently employs 500 people in France.
Sources
21 November 2017: Le Parisien
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Impact Field Marketing, Closure in France, factsheet number 92608, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92608.
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