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.
East Midlands; Leicestershire; Rutland and Northamptonshire
Location of affected unit(s)
Appleby Magna
Sector
Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52 - Warehousing and support activities for transportation
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 October 2019
Employment effect (start)
10 October 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
DSV, a global transport and logistics company is planning to create 200 jobs when it moves to a new site in an ‘employment park’ near Appleby Magna in Leicestershire. Another 200 jobs will be relocated to this newly built site from the company's current site, which is only 10 miles away at Kingsbury. A spokesperson for the property developer has said that DSV will use the new location as a hub for its UK operations, including road, air, sea and contract logistics.
Denmark based DSV is one of the world’s leading storage and distribution business - it operates in more than 90 countries, employing 1,900 people in the UK and over 47,000 people internationally.
Eurofound (2019), DSV, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 99059, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99059.
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