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.
Wholesale / Retail Retail trade Retail sale of other goods, except motor vehicles and motorcycles 47.74 - Retail sale of medical and orthopaedic goods
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 July 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2019
Foreseen end date
1 January 2021
Description
Bastide Le Confort Médical (BLCM), based in Caissargues (Gard), announced the recruitment of 150 to 200 employees by 2021. The company continues to grow. In the coming months, the company is running a fundraising campaign of €50-€80 million to invest in its activities and to recruit employees. Currently 400 employees work at the headquarters and about a hundred at the Gard plant. The others are located in France.
With its fifty or so subsidiaries, the group employs 2,800 people and it is also expanding in Great Britain, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Eurofound (2018), Bastide le Confort Médical, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 98093, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98093.
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