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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
132 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 February 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2006
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007
Description
Akrapovič is a high tech fast growing Slovenian company specialised in the production of exhaust systems for the most prestigious motor bikes and cars. The company is in constant expansion and had planned to increase in 2006 and 2007 its staff by at least 132 employees. At the beginning of 2006, the number of employees was of 220. The expansion is due to fast growth of the motor bikes market, as well as of the entry of Akrapovič in the automobile market. The assessment of the management is that company could have approximately 1,500 employees in ten years time if successfully expand in the automobile market.
Sources
16 February 2007: Finance
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Akrapovič, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 64950, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64950.
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