RESHORING CASE

Pepe Jeans

Company details
Code: 
PepeJ
Company name: 
Pepe Jeans
Company country: 
Spain
Number of employees: 
3000
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C14 - Manufacture of wearing apparel
Sub-sectors: 
C14.1 - Manufacture of wearing apparel, except fur apparel
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
02/12/2016
Starting implementation date: 
November, 2016
End of Implementation : 
December, 2017
Reshored to: 
Spain
Reshored business function: 
Administration
Partial or Total reshoring: 
Partial
Reshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Reasons for reshoring: 
Firm's global reorganization
Case narrative: 
Façonnable is a French brand of wearing clothes. Spanish company Pepe Jeans acquired this brand in early November 2016, this acquisition aimed to deliver synergies between these two companies. After acquisition,  French brand Façonnable plans to close its headquarter located in  Côte d'Azur.The administrative and marketing teams of Façonnable are relocated from France to Barcelona, Spain by Pepe Jeans. The news confirmed that this decision reduced its workforce by cutting 78 jobs in France, no data is disclosed about any increasing of jobs in Spain as of press time.
Sources: 

Les Echos, 02/12/2016

Offshoring details
Offshoring location: 
France
Reason for offshoring: 
Merger and Acquisition