The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 September 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2007
Foreseen end date
Description
Pharmaceutical company Lek from Ljubljana,the subsidiary of the Swiss-based Sandoz group, builds a new bio-pharmaceutical development centre in Mengeš, near Ljubljana. The centre will operate within the existing unit in Mengeš specialised in the production of bio-pharmaceuticals - ingredients and products - which currently employs some 600 people. The investment in the new centre will reach EUR 6.7 million and will create about 100 new jobs for the high skilled professionals who will develop and produce the bio-pharmaceuticals (biological active pharmaceutical ingredients and products) for the global market of Sandoz. The development centre will be opened by mid-2007.
Eurofound (2006), Lek, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 64153, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64153.
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