Type
Business expansion
Country
Czechia
Region
Jihozapad; Plzensky;
Location of affected unit(s)
Plzeň
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture For Transport Equipment
Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment
30.2 - Manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock

500 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
6 September 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013

Description

Škoda Transportation, a traditional Czech transport engineering company, is to create 500 new jobs at its manufacturing site in Plzeň by the end of 2013. This is due to high customer order volume. From the first half of this year, the company supplies trains for Deutsche Bahn, trams for China and Turkey, trolleybuses for Riga in Latvia and Burgas in Bulgaria. The company's contracts have a total value of CZK 22 billions.

Škoda transportation currently employs 3,600 people at three sites in the Czech Republic (Plzeň, Otrava, Šumperk). Company's management also plans to extend work shifts and is currently searching for new production areas.

 


Sources

  • 6 September 2013: Hospodárske noviny

Citation

Eurofound (2013), Å koda Transportation, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 75815, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75815.