The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Information / Communication Information Communication Services Telecommunications 61.20 - Wireless telecommunications activities
0 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
7 May 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC is to create 300 new jobs with the opening of its service centre for Europe in June 2015 in the city of Brno. The city benefits from its strategic position based on direct access to the motorway network and skilled workers. In the first year, the total investment will reach CZK 1 billion. As reported, the site will employ about 1,000 people in the long run.
Update 24/8/2015: Newspaper reports indicate that HTC apparently has abandoned the plan to run its service centre for Europe in Brno, previously indicated in June 2015. The company has started to lay off newly recruited staff (about a dozen employees). In mid-August 2015, the company announced plans to reduce its global workforce by about 15 percent and operational expenses by more than a third. HTC has problems with sales levels and expects a net loss this quarter.
Sources
7 May 2015: Finanční noviny
24 August 2015: Hospodárske noviny
25 August 2015: MF Dnes
Citation
Eurofound (2015), HTC, Other in Czechia, factsheet number 79946, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79946.
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