RESHORING CASE

Hygena

Company details
Code: 
Hygena
Company name: 
Hygena
Group name: 
Fournier Groupe
Company country: 
France
Group home country: 
France
Number of employees: 
710
Sector: 
G - Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Sector detail: 
G47 - Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
Sub-sectors: 
G47.5 - Retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
11/06/2015
Starting implementation date: 
September, 2015
End of Implementation : 
December, 2015
Reshored to: 
France
Location of affected unit(s): 
Thônes
Location code: 
FR718
Reshored business function: 
Production
Partial or Total reshoring: 
Total
Reshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Estimated job gains: 
0
Reasons for reshoring: 
Economic crisis
Firm's global reorganization
Logistics costs
Reshoring ERM database code: 
hygena-0
Case narrative: 

Hygena, a brand of fitted kitchen and a subsidiary of Fournier Group, will relocate kitchen production to its French site in Thônes (Haute-Savoie) from its current location in the UK. This decision will also lead to job cuts in the logistics site of Wancourt (Pas-de-Calais). Support functions at the headquarters at Seclin (Nord) will also be cut and several Hygena shops will be closed. The management has announced that it will offer 140 positions within the Fournier group to the affected employees and will help to find employment solutions for the others. It is expected that 76 positions will be transformed into sales positions, however, as employees could refuse a change of their employment contract, the number of dismissals could increase beyond the 268 that have already been announced.

Fournier is the owner of the custom made kitchens brand Mobalpa and took over Hygena in October 2014.  Hygena has 125 shops in France and 710 employees. The company is struggling with a decrease in sales from €142 million in 2013 to €120 million in 2012.

Sources: 

Le Figaro, 12/06/2015
Ouest France, 11/06/2015

Offshoring details
Offshoring date: 
2015
Offshoring location: 
United Kingdom
Offshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Offshoring entry mode: 
Wholly owned
Reason for offshoring: 
Merger and Acquisition