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Table. Overview of EWS cases
N˚ MNE involved Description
1 Online retailer Former logistics centre became retail
2 Online media content seller traders
Relocation of an unit
3 International restaurant chain Relocation of an unit

4 Low cost carrier Set up of affiliate company
5 Social network Changes to booking of advertisement
Merger
6 Oil and gas (1) income
7 Oil and gas (2) Acquisition
8 Consumer goods manufacturer Simplification of management structure
9 Tobacco producer Setting up of a new factory
10 Financial services group Moving headquarters

11 Pharmaceutical company Acquisition
12 Electronic goods manufacturer Moving headquarters
13 High Technology manufacturer Transfer of registration of licenses
14 Automotive manufacturer Relocation of production

The individual cases are discussed with the national correspondents of the
concerned EU Member States and EFTA countries, and the anonymised
methodological notes drafted and made available to all the national EWS
correspondents.
Based on the outcome of the discussions of the specific restructuring case
with the national EWS correspondents concerned, Eurostat might also draft
and publish an (anonymised) explanatory note, normally, at the moment of
the data release. For an example of such an explanatory note, see [Eurostat
2017].

8. Additional actions and data sources for detecting MNE restructuring
cases
So far, the number of cases dealt with in the EWS is quite limited. In order to
get more restructuring cases treated by the EWS, the following additional
actions are being studied.
· Working more closely together with national Large Cases Units
(LCUs). Many EU Member States have established (or will establish)
national LCUs. A close cooperation of the EWS correspondents with
these LCUs is encouraged. If needed, national alert processes should
be established from the LCUs to the EWS national correspondents for
this purpose.

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