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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Tobacco Products Manufacture Of Tobacco Products 12 - Manufacture of tobacco products
950 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
28 May 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
Philip Morris Tobacco, the cigarettes manufacturer, will close its plant in Berlin-Neukölln, by the end of 2019, causing 950 redundancies. Around 80 positions will be kept. The management explains that the closure is motivated by a shift in consumer habits and a decline in cigarettes demand.
The closure was announced in May 2019, causing mobilisation of the trade unions and local government. The negotiations with the trade union NGG and workers' representatives on a social plan are still ongoing. However, they won't have an impact on the number of job cuts.
Eurofound (2019), Philip Morris Tobacco, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 99122, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99122.
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