Type
Business expansion
Country
Romania
Region
Sud-Est; Braila;
Location of affected unit(s)
Braila
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture For Transport Equipment
Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers
29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles

400 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
17 March 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2016
Foreseen end date
30 June 2016

Description

The Japanese Company Yazaki will open a new production line in Braila factory. The company is hiring 400 people as operators, assembly line workers and wiring systems engineers, by mid-2016.

Ms. Aura Tadler, HR Manager Yazaki Braila said that: “by mid-2016 we will have 1,500 employees and our estimation is that by the end of 2016, the total number of employees will be 2000.”

Yazaki started the production in the Braila factory last year. The factory supplies car manufacturers such as BMW with wiring and other components.

Yazaki expanded its workforce in 2015 and 2014.


Sources

  • 17 March 2016: digi24.ro
  • 22 January 2015: Digi24
  • 21 January 2015: adevarul.ro
  • 26 September 2014: Ziarul Financiar

Citation

Eurofound (2016), Yazaki Braila, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 86813, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86813.