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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Other Specialised Wholesale 46.72 - Wholesale of metals and metal ores
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 January 2012
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2012
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012
Description
Transcarpatica, a trader of metallurgy products, announced the intention to create 150 new jobs at Tetarom III industrial park, in Jucu near Cluj. The newly hired employees will be located in the former Nokia site. The company has informed the County Employment Agency.
Nokia Romania had announced its withdrawal from its factory in Jucu in September 2011 leaving 2,200 people jobless (see here). Now, a number of companies have announced job creation on Nokia's former premises including De'Longhi (see here), Transcarpatica and Bosch (see here). In total 2,750 job creations have been announced by these three companies.
Sources
26 January 2012: Ziua de Cluj
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Transcarpatica, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 73021, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73021.
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