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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 March 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2010
Foreseen end date
Description
Seaway, a Slovenian producer of sailing boats and yachts, has announced that it is to create 200 new jobs with the development of a new production site in Puconci near Murska Sobota (in the less developed Pomurska region). The new facility will produce parts for sailing boats, yachts and wings of sails and it is expected to be operational by 2010. As of March 2008, there is no information on when the new jobs wll be created by. This business expansion will involve an investment of approximately EUR 10 million. The company has recorded very high growth rates in recent years. Recently it has also started to produce wings for wind power plants.
Sources
20 March 2008: Delo
20 March 2008: Finance
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Seaway, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 66412, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66412.
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