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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Manufacture Of Furniture 31 - Manufacture of furniture
87 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 March 2020
Employment effect (start)
27 March 2020
Foreseen end date
Description
Danish-capital furniture manufacturing company Theco Furniture is to dismiss 87 employees in Alytus. According to the management, the main cause of the dismissals is the quarantine regime in Lithuania. Such information was provided by the Lithuanian Employment Service. To control the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), the Lithuanian Government declared quarantine on the entire territory of the Republic of Lithuania as of 16 March 2020.
Currently Theco Furniture employs 709 employees. Furniture production was relocated from Denmark to Lithuania in 2006. The company is exporting their products to more than 50 countries worldwide.
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