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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.20 - Manufacture of railway locomotives and rolling stock
260 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 February 2015
Employment effect (start)
2 February 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
At the beginning of February Fabryka Wagonów Gniewczyna, the railway carriage factory located in Gniewczyna Łańcucka (Podkarpackie Voivodeship), has re-employed 260 workers, who have lost their jobs when the company announced its bankruptcy on 9 October 2014. The company’s trustee together with the owner - Slovakian company Forespo - will try to find a new strategic investor.
Sources
9 February 2015: Gazeta Wyborcza
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Fabryka Wagonów Gniewczyna, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 78294, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78294.
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