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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Goods In Specialised Stores 47.71 - Retail sale of clothing in specialised stores
400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 February 2019
Employment effect (start)
27 February 2019
Foreseen end date
1 June 2019
Description
On 26 February 2019, the fashion company Esprit announced to cut 400 jobs in Germany due to internal restructuring until June 2019. Positions in administration functions at Esprit’s headquarter in Ratingen, Germany are the most affected. The job reduction is necessary due a €280 million loss worldwide in the previous fiscal year and sales decreasing by 14.4% in the first half of the current fiscal year. All in all, Esprit will be cutting 35% to 40% of administrative jobs worldwide.
Esprit announced that each store will be checked on its profitability and has yet to exclude closures.
Currently Esprit has 1,160 employees at it headquarter in Ratingen and 1,540 employees in 137 stores in Germany.
Sources
27 March 2019: Westfälische Rundschau (online) (www.wr.de)
Eurofound (2019), Esprit, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 97403, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97403.
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