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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.5 - Manufacture Of Domestic Appliances
No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
18 January 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
Elica, an Italian multinational manufacturers of kitchen hoods, relocated the manufacturing of 20,000 units of Spot-NG hoods from Poland to its facility in Mergo, Italy in 2019. The decision was confirmed during a meeting with Confindustria Ancona in October 2018 aimed at reviewing the agreement signed in the fall of 2017. The company's management expressed its commitment to bring back production to Italy.
Eurofound (2019), Elica, Reshoring in Italy, factsheet number 255, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/255.
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