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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
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 November 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
Krušovce-based ZKW Slovakia, a producer of motor vehicle lamps, has announced the creation of about 500 new jobs. According to ZKW CEO, Hubert Schuhleitner, the company will make this new investment in the Krušovce plant by the end of 2010 in spite of the global decline of the automotive industry. Currently, ZKW Slovakia has 105 employees at its production plant operating in Krušovce since June 2007.
Eurofound (2008), ZKW Slovakia, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 67594, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67594.
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