Boxmark Leather

Type
Offshoring/Delocalisation
Country
Slovenia
Region
Slovenija; Vzhodna Slovenija; Podravska
Location of affected unit(s)
Kidričevo
Sector
Manufacturing
(13 - 15) Manufacture of textiles, apparel and leather
15.1 - Tanning, dyeing, dressing of leather and fur; manufacture of luggage, handbags, saddlery and harness
15.11 - Tanning, dressing, dyeing of leather and fur
New offshoring locations
Croatia
34 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
13 June 2006
Employment effect (start)
14 June 2006
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006

Description

Boxmark Leather is a company which produces leather for suppliers in the automobile industry. The company is owned by Austrian firm Schmidt. Schmidt decided to relocate the most technologically sophisticated part of leather production from Slovenia to Croatia, where it already built new production premises. This will make 184 workers in the existing production programme of Boxmark Leather in Slovenia redundant. However, Boxmark Leather just launched some new production programmes and 150 of the workers will be employed there. Therefore, 34 employees will lose their jobs.

Sources

  • 13 June 2006: Finance

Citation

Eurofound (2006), Boxmark Leather, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Slovenia, factsheet number 63628, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/63628.