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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
6,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 March 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
German car manufacturer Audi has announced plans to create 6,000 new jobs worldwide in 2015. It is foreseen that 4,000 of the new positions will be created in Germany, with the rest being located in other countries worldwide.
Audi, which belongs to the Volkswagen group, employs approximately 80,000 people worldwide. The company grew by 5,732 employees in 2014 alone. By 2019, the company plans to invest €24 billion in new technologies for production as well as in the construction of new production plants worldwide.
Sources
11 March 2015: Stuttgarter Nachrichten Online
10 March 2015: Audi (Company press release)
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Audi, Business expansion in World, factsheet number 79178, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79178.
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