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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 March 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
American company Polaris Industries plans to create at least 350 jobs at its new factory of off-road vehicles in Opole (the Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone). The plant is expected to be operational in July 2014. Polaris has started recruiting; the company is to employ experienced workers as well as graduates. The investment is worth PLN 100 million and the target number of employees to work in the Polaris plant may reach 2,000.
Polaris Industries was founded in 1954 in USA. Currently the company employs over 4,500 people and it has factories in USA, France and Mexico.
Sources
6 March 2014: Strefa Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Polaris Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 76747, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76747.
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