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Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 30.1 - Building of ships and boats 30.12 - Building of pleasure and sporting boats
650 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 650 people on permanent employment contract from October 2018 to December 2019, including 490 for its French sites. Internationally, the 160 positions created are related to industrial investments in Poland and the United States to increase production capacity and support the growth of the Boat business. The group, which employs, 7,000 people worldwide, had already hired 500 people in its 2017-2018 recruiment plan. A previous recruitment of 400 people was alreday recorded in the ERM Database in 2011.
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Bénétaud, Business expansion in World, factsheet number 95581, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/95581.