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 Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 March 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
Czech company Apos Blansko is to produce printer cartridges for Lexmark, a US based supplier of printing and imaging solutions. The company has already hired 120 people and a further 230 are to be hired by the end of 2006. Apos Blansko will receive financial support from the government for two thirds of the employees hired.
Last year, Apos Blansko won a tender launched by Lexmark, which was looking for a suitable place to expand its production. Lexmark decided to relocate production from Slovakia to the Czech Republic.
Sources
7 March 2006: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Apos Blansko, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 63097, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63097.
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