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Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 October 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2008
Foreseen end date
1 January 2012
Description
Aero Vodochody, a Czech producer of aircrafts, is to create approximately 150 new jobs at Vodochody and Prague-Radotín. The creation of the new jobs follows the firm agreeing a five-year contract worth 1 billion CZK to supply French company Latécoere Toulouse with components to produce commercial jets. The new jobs will be created between 2008 and 2012, and the jobs will involve the hired employees working on the production of sub-systems and doors for the commercial jets Embraer 170 and Embraer 190. Aero Vodochody currently employs 1200 in the Czech Republic.
Sources
8 October 2007: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Aero Vodochody, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 65888, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/65888.