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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32.30 - Manufacture of sports goods
125 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 January 2023
Employment effect (start)
23 January 2023
Foreseen end date
31 December 2023
Description
The ski producer Amer Sports Bulgaria EOOD is building a new factory in Assenovgrad, for which it will hire 125 new employees. The company plans to have all construction works finished by the end of the year and to start production. The 125 new employees that will be hired, will undergo initial training at Amer Sports Bulgaria's first manufacturing premise in Chepelare, which currently has 750 employees.The location of the new premise has been chosen for logistics reasons – proximity to a highway, an airport, and to the first factory in Chepelare.On January 23, 2023, Amer Sports Bulgaria received an Investor Class A certificate, which gives it access to a subsidy of 900,000 levs (450 thousand Euro) to build the infrastructure around the new production facility.
Eurofound (2023), Amer Sports Bulgaria, Business expansion in Bulgaria, factsheet number 108217, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108217.
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