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 Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25 - Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 January 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Gretsch-Unitas, a German producer of metal construction parts, has announced that it is to create 300 new jobs in Nitra with the development of a new plant for the production of door and window fittings and garage gates. The greenfield investment in Nitra industrial park will amount to SKK 400 million. Employment effect start date and timeline were not yet announced.
Sources
3 January 2008: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Gretsch-Unitas, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 66177, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66177.
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