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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
900 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 March 2015
Employment effect (start)
29 March 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
Volkswagen will increase its employment in Poland in relation to production of the new model of VW Caddy. 900 new jobs will be created at its plant in Poznań. The VW has invested EUR 23 million and the production is going to start in late May 2015. The company has already started to recruit engineers and maintenance specialists. The recruitment of production staff is planned to begin in July this year.
Volkswagen has been operating in Poznań since 1993 and presently employs more than 7,500 people.
Sources
29 March 2015: Polskie Radio
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Volkswagen Poznań, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 79175, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79175.
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