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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Manufacture Of Furniture 31.0 - Manufacture of furniture
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 May 2016
Employment effect (start)
6 May 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
Polish furniture company Meble Negro has announced that it will create 150 jobs at its newly opened production facility in Czarne in the Słupsk Special Economic Zone, Poland. The site will specialise in production of upholstered furniture. The value of the investment has amounted to PLN 30 million (EUR 6.83 million USD 7.75 million). The investor has built a production hall and warehouse equipped with modern machinery.
Meble Negro has been operating since 2002; currently, the company has two production units located in Czarne and Chojnice.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Meble Negro, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 87479, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87479.
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