Nexans S.A. announced a project to enhance its organization and restructure its European operations. A complete resizing of the organization through the refocusing on its core Business Groups, suppressing regional structures and greatly reducing complexity. A leaner and more cost effective, agile organization, achieved through the rationalization of hierarchical structures. This project would help Nexans achieve superior realignment of corporate activities at headquarter level, sharing of certain functional activities between countries refocusing certain industrial footprint. Restructuring project would also contribute to the optimization of the Group Innovation and Technology existing structure, in line with the current evolution of the businesses towards more modularity and services. This restructuring project would affect 939 positions, and will see the creation of 296 jobs. The main social impact would be in Germany, France, Switzerland and, to a lesser extent, Belgium, Norway and Italy.