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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 October 2007
Employment effect (start)
6 November 2007
Foreseen end date
6 November 2007
Description
Gorenje Indop, a producer of industrial equipment and a subsidiary of Gorenje Group, is to create 100 new jobs in Šoštanj. The firm currently employs 126 in Šoštanj, and will move into a new premises prior to the new workers being recruited. Armoured vehicles for the Slovenian army will be produced at the new site. The Finnish firm Patria originally won the contract for the production of these vehicles, but have since sub-contracted part of the production of these vehicles to Gorenje Indop. It is expected that the new jobs will be created by 6th November 2007.
Eurofound (2007), Gorenje Indop, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 65988, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65988.
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