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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
Announcement Date
1 July 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
In October 2014, Volkswagen Poznań received a permission to build a factory in Września (Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone), which is expected to be fully operational in 2016. New generation of Volkswagen Crafter will be manufactured there. Volkswagens' investment of PLN 3.3 mln (EUR 0.76 mln USD 0.93 mln) will bring 3,000 jobs in total. 500 workers have already been contracted by the factory and starting from the September this year the company will recruit up to 500 new employees. Volkswagen has been operating in Poznań since 1993 and it employs approximately 7,000 people.
Sources
1 July 2015: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Volkswagen Poznań, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 84461, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84461.
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