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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 February 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2005
Description
On 6 June 2005, Professor Marek Belka and Doctor Kurt Ludwig Gutberlet, the President of the management board of Bosch-Siemens Hausgaerete GmbH officially opened the new manufacturing plant of condensation dryers in the Łódź Special Economic Zone, sub-zone Łódź.
This plant is the second production plant of BSH in Łódź. The company started its business in Łódź in 1998. In 2002, it started the production of washing machines and dishwashers. As a result of the new investment, 200 new jobs have already been created, and an additional 300 people will be employed. Altogether the employment in the plants in Łódź will reach the level of 1,300 people.
Sources
8 June 2005: The Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency
7 February 2005: Rzeczpospolita
11 February 2005: Rzeczpospolita
17 May 2005: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Siemens, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 61128, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61128.
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