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Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 September 2007
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007
Description
Tatravagónka, a firm that manufactures railway rolling stock, is to create approximately 500 new jobs in Poprad. The new jobs are part of a strategy to expand production at the Poprad site, and will be created by the end of 2007. The announcement marks a change in the fortunes of the firm, who in 2005 cut several hundred jobs at the Poprad plant. Tatravagónka currently employs 1800 at its Poprad site.
Sources
6 September 2007: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Tatravagónka, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 65870, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/65870.