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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Wearing Apparel 14 - Manufacture of wearing apparel
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 August 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2007
Foreseen end date
Description
Multinational fashion-wear company Escada from Germany will build a new centre for product and process development and logistics in Gornja Radgona. The investment value is EUR 12.5 million. The centre will undertake activities related to the development of Escada trademark, including education of dressmakers, modellers and other technical personnel. The centre will be operational by April 2007 and will operate in the framework of the company Elos-Escada. It will employ 150 employees. At present Escada has production facilities at the same location which employ 250 people. In 2005, the total turnover of the production unit in Gornja Radgona was app. EUR 4.2 million, while the total turnover of Escada Group in 2005 was app. EUR 649 million.
Sources
22 August 2006: Finance
22 August 2006: Delo
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Elos-Escada, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 63938, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63938.
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