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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 July 2010
Employment effect (start)
12 July 2010
Foreseen end date
31 August 2010
Description
Volkswagen Slovakia Company is to expand its business and create about 1000 new jobs in its Bratislava plant by September 2010. According to the PR manager of the Company, VladimÃr MichalÃk, the business expansion is attributed to the increasing customer demands on new Touareg, Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne off-road cars. From 2 September 2010 continuous-shift work will operate on the company's production lines.
Sources
5 July 2010: Hospodárske noviny ()
5 July 2010: Pravda
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Citation
Eurofound (2010), Volkswagen Slovakia, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 70689, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70689.
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