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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.31 - Manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment for motor vehicles
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 September 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2023
Foreseen end date
Description
Garo Polska, a Polish branch of a electric vehicles equipment manufacturing group, announced the creation of 300 jobs in a new manufacturing site in Szczecin. Recruitment will start in April 2023. The company expects to employ mostly operational workers on the site that is currently under construction. The total investment in the new site is expected to be of EUR 10,000,000. The plant will produce charging stations for electric vehicles.
Garo is a Swedish group which has been present in Poland since 1996. Since 2012, it is also operating in the special economic zone in Szczecin. Currently, it employs around 50 people in Szczecin.
Eurofound (2022), Garo Polska, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 107398, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107398.
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