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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 January 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
Dutch entrepreneur Wim Zwijsen who is active in the region for more than ten years established Tesec Slovakia, a cable manufacturer, in 1996. Initially 35 employees worked there. In 2005 Zwijsen built a new production plant and increased the staff to 100 employees. All production of the company is successfully exported to EU and USA and further increase of production volume is expected in 2006.
According to Tesec Slovakia CEO Jaroslav Rickardt, the Dutch owner also plans to establish the company’s Central European logistic centre there. 100 new jobs will be created in the process.
Sources
19 January 2006: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Tesec Slovakia, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 62809, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62809.
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