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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 November 2005
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2006
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
Global Garden Products will establish its first subsidiary in Slovakia. The Italian company manufactures more than a million lawn mowers and around 80,000 garden tractors a year. The new production plant in Slovakia will produce lawn mowers and will be located –in a new industrial park nearby Poprad. Poprad municipality representatives are trying to attract further investors there and they assume that more than 1,000 people would get job in the industrial park in the future.
Sources
23 November 2005: SME
23 November 2005: Pravda
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Global Garden Products, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 62556, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62556.
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