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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
588 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 December 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2008
Description
German FTE Automotive Group, a worldwide market leader in brake and clutch systems, is to build a new plant in Podbořany, located in the Czech region with the highest unemployment rate. The company wants to invest over one billion CZK. At full production capacity, the plant should create 588 jobs by 2009. The new created Czech subsidiary FTE automotive Czechia has already initiated an advertising campaign, looking especially for lathe operators, mechanics, skilled machine tool workers but also for high-qualified engineers.
Sources
6 December 2005: Lidové Noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2005), FTE Automotive, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 62616, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62616.
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