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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32.4 - Manufacture of games and toys
New offshoring locations
Czechia
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 January 2005
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2005
Foreseen end date
Description
The toy manufacturer Lego, which in October 2004 announced a serious economic crisis, has planned to relocate part of the production in Billund, Denmark, to Kladno in the Czech Republic. In this regard, at least 100 employees will be dismissed from the main Lego factory in Billund, although Lego would not reveal how many will be redundant and when the relocation will take place. Lego already owns a factory in Kladno. 2,700 employees are employed in Billund, hereof 1,600 in production.
Sources
17 January 2005: Jyllands-Posten
Citation
Eurofound (2005), LEGO, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Denmark, factsheet number 61067, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61067.
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