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 Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26 - Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 November 2006
Employment effect (start)
30 June 2007
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
Brother Industries, a British-Japanese company, decided to invest around EUR 3 million in southern Slovakia, where unemployment rate is high. According to Soňa Junasová, the Public Relation's representative of the Slovak Agency for Development of Investment and Trade (SARIO), the new investor plans to operate in the premises of the previous local diary shop in Krupina. After reconstruction of the premises, toners for business machines will be produced there. Used toners will be recycled there, too. As a result, more than 250 new jobs will be created there by the end of 2010. The production is planned to be launched in the first half of 2007. Almost all products will be exported to Western and Central European markets.
Sources
20 November 2006: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Brother Industries, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 64520, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64520.
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