The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Wood And Paper Materials Manufacture Of Wood And Of Products Of Wood And Cork, Except Furniture; Manufacture Of Articles Of Straw And Plaiting Materials 16 - Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 April 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Barlinek, a company producing mainly wooden floors –floorboards, classic parquet floors and mosaic, lit floors - started to build a new factory in Barlinek (Zachodniopomorskie).
Despite the fact that the new factory will cost PLN 100 million, the company declared it is to invest PLN 200 million in this area.
Tax deductions and other benefits from presence in the Kostrzyńsko-Słubicka Special Economic Zone encouraged the company to invest there.
Sources
27 April 2005: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Barlinek, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 61477, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61477.
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