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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 April 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
Fiat Auto Poland will hire 150 new employees (for painting, assembly, and mechanics) for its factory in Tychy, increasing the current workforce of 3217. The expansion is due to brisk orders for the Fiat Panda. Also, the Tychy plant will commence, as of mid-2007, to produce the new Fiat 500 and, in 2008, Fiat Auto Poland will embark on production (also in Tychy) of the new Ford Ka in a joint venture with Ford. According to the information of 2007.05.20 the company actually employs 3700 people and plans the employ 1000 new workers until the end of 2009.
Sources
14 April 2006: Gazeta Wyborcza
20 May 2007: Gazeta Wyborcza
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Fiat Auto Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 63354, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63354.
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