Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
The French group Thales, specialising in aerospace, defence, security, and transportation, increases its work force by 150 employees with the aim of doubling its ammunition production at La Ferté-Saint-Aubain in the Loiret department.
As the reason for this expansion Thales mentions the intensifying conflicts zones around the world. Investments were used to automate and certain sensitive activities, also by robots, and to build a new compound for R&D activities. Moreover, the new employees will receive training at Thales' own pyrotechnics academy. Thales currently employs 500 workers at the La Ferté-Saint-Aubain plant.
This expansion is a first recruitment wave as part of a recruitment campaign of 3,000 workers in France in 2025, of which 25% (750) workers will have permanent positions. Among those, 400 workers were hired in Limours: Thales 2025 - FR and 150 in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes: Thales 2025 - FR
Eurofound (2025), Thales, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 203185, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203185.
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