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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.1 - Warehousing and storage
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 May 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Gillette Group Poland and DHL Solutions, business unit of DHL Logistics, jointly opened a logistic centre in Dąbrowa Górnicza, which will become one of Gillette’s largest distribution centres in Europe. The investment outlays amount to €2.5 million. The centre will supply Gillette products to customers across Central Europe: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia as well as distributor markets in Africa and Asia.
In addition to storing goods, DHL will offer services such as goods packaging, stickering, and re-packaging according to specific needs of various commercial operators, special packaging for promotional purposes, PCV foil packing and welding.
Sources
16 May 2005: The Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Gillette Group Poland and DHL Solutions, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 61591, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61591.
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