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 For Transport Equipment 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://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65870.
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