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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
31 May 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2006
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
Electrolux has completed the first stage of its investment in Åšwidnica, where it is building an EUR 40 million kitchen stove factory. Production will begin in December 2006, and 200 people will be hired by late 2007. The target employment level of 400 will be reached by 2009.
The first 60 people will start working in the Swedish Electrolux factory already in October 2006. Only in May, the company declared employment of 50 people untill the end of 2006. Now it is estimated that the factory will employ 75 people until the end of 2006.
Sources
31 May 2006: Puls Biznesu
22 August 2006: Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Electrolux, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 63582, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63582.
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