Global Garden Products

Type
Business expansion
Country
Slovakia
Region
Slovensko; Východné Slovensko; Prešovský kraj
Location of affected unit(s)
Poprad-Matejovce
Sector
Manufacturing
(28) Manufacture of machinery and equipment
28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
300 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
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://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/62556.