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Construction Construction Of Buildings And Infrastructure Engineering Construction Of Buildings 41.20 - Construction of residential and non-residential buildings
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 May 2019
Employment effect (start)
28 May 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
The Austrian construction company Porr Construct has announced that 150 new job vacancies will be created by the end of 2019. The company has managed to increase its turnover by 35% in 2018 to RON 513.8 million (€108.79 million), reaching a profit of RON 40 million (€8.47 million), while the previous year the company reported losses of RON 34.2 miullion (€7.24 million). Porr is looking for engineers, managers and construction workers. In Romania, the company has infrastructure and building construction projects.
In Romania, the company was established in 2004 and has a workforce of 296. Â
Sources
28 May 2019: Ziarul Financiar (short version of the article) (www.zf.ro)
Citation
Eurofound (2019), Porr Construct Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 97962, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97962.
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