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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.12 - Building of pleasure and sporting boats
490 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 September 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2018
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
The ship and yacht building company Bénéteau has announced the recruitment of 490 people on permanent employment contract from October 2018 to December 2019. The two third of the job creation will take place at its sites in the Vendée department, and a hundred in Bordeaux (Gironde). On this total, about 50 positions will be created in its wooden houses construction. On the total of 490 positions, half of them are job creations, the other half are replacements following retirement. Therefore, the job net creation is about 245.
The group, which employs 7,000 people worldwide, has already hired 500 people with its 2017-2018 recruiment plan. The company also hired 400 people in 2011.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Bénéteau, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 95580, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95580.
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