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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
260 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
12 February 2007
Employment effect (start)
28 February 2007
Foreseen end date
31 December 2008
Description
Montupet, a French firm engaged with the production of automotive parts, plans to employ 180 additional workers in 2008 for its new facility in Ruse, where it has already employed 80 workers in 2007. Within the next three years the total staff of the company is expected to reach 600. Montupet was awarded by the Invest Bulgaria Agency as an Investor of the Year for 2007.
Ruse is the first of Montupet’s outlets in Eastern Europe (other factories are based in France, Spain, Canada, Northern Ireland and Mexico with a total of 3,700 workers).
Eurofound (2007), Montupet, Business expansion in Bulgaria, factsheet number 64918, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64918.
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