Type
Business expansion
Country
Germany
Region
Nordrhein-Westfalen; Köln;
Location of affected unit(s)
Köln
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture For Transport Equipment
Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers
29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles

500 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
10 June 2014
Employment effect (start)
11 June 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014

Description

Car manufacturer Ford is to create 500 jobs for engineers within 2014 at its development center in Cologne. By now, 400 of the engineers already work there as temporary workers.

Ford employs around 24,000 people in Germany, 17,000 of them in Cologne where the Ford Fiesta is produced for the whole European region.  

Between June 2011 and June 2012, Ford has already set up 700 new jobs at its site in Cologne after having cut 1,300 jobs in 2005.


Sources

  • 11 June 2014: Handelsblatt
  • 10 June 2014: WDR
  • 11 June 2014: Stuttgarter Zeitung

Citation

Eurofound (2014), Ford, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 77185, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77185.