Dutch designer furniture brand Leolux is transferring the core of its sales support operations from its offices in Venlo to its Experience Centre in Breukelen. The company wants to work more efficiently by combining functions and this reorganisation is necessary for that purpose. Several departments are also being merged and functions eliminated in the production company in Venlo. In total, this reorganisation will lead to the loss of 27 of the current 260 FTEs.
Dutch designer furniture brand Leolux has been in a reorganisation process for some time. A new step in the restructuring is moving various sales support activities such as the Service and Aftersales departments to the Leolux Experience Centre on the A2 in Breukelen. This opens up the possibility of combining different functions and reducing overheads. A necessary step to move with the changing market and remain maximally accessible to the customer. Various departments at the production facility in Venlo are also being compressed or merged. As a result of the total measures, 27 of the current 260 FTE at Leolux will be eliminated. A third of this number of FTEs will disappear through natural turnover.
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Last month, Gert van Heuvelen (director Particon), Bernd Jan Klein Entink (director Leolux on behalf of the Enterprise Chamber) and Sebastiaan Sanders (3rd generation shareholder Leolux) announced that the company had received a capital injection.
Employees
Bernd Jan Klein Entink, director at Leolux on behalf of the Enterprise Chamber, says the reorganisation is necessary but also difficult: "The cancellation of the positions in Venlo is of course a blow to the affected employees. Naturally, we are mindful of their commitment and loyalty and handle this with care. At the same time, this reorganisation is a necessary step to balance the organisational structure with the market situation, now and in the future."
Capital injection
The reorganisation at Leolux follows after an investment agreement was signed with Maastricht-based private equity company Particon in September. Together with shareholder and former managing director Sebastiaan Sanders, Particon made a capital injection to achieve stable financing. The current reorganisation should ensure that the structure and size of the organisation are also equipped to respond decisively to changes in the market. This completes the last phase of the restructuring at Leolux. At the end of this year, the involvement of the Enterprise Chamber in the furniture factory will also come to an end. The next step is the appointment of a new managing director. Leolux expects to announce the arrival of this new CEO before the end of the year.
More information:
Leolux Furniture Group B.V.
Marinus Dammeweg 55
5928 PW Venlo
www.leolux.nl
'27 of the current 260 FTE at Leolux will be eliminated'
