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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 September 2010
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2010
Foreseen end date
Description
The Austrian company, Melecs, has announced its plan to hire 200 people in Győr, Hungary. The newly hired employees are recruited out of 450 employees of the recently closed Lite-on (see fact sheet on Lite-on)
Bernhard Pulverer, one of the three managing directors of the company says: that they have an annual turnover of 140 Million Euro, 100 Millio comes from electronic devices. A third of the electronics production from Austria shall be relocated to Győr. The trial period will start in October 2010.
MELECS GmbH specializes in electronics, mechanics and switchgears on washing machines, dishwashers, cookers and refrigerators. MELECS also produces terminals for TETRA, the international standard for digital wireless traffic.
Sources
17 September 2010: Heti Világ Gazdaság
17 September 2010: Menedzsment Fórum
17 September 2010: Népszabadság
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Melecs, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 70950, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70950.
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