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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
450 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 August 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
German GeWis Gruppe will establish its next facility in Slovakia creating about 450 jobs at a plant which will produce metal components for passenger cars and tractors. A new production unit will be built in Prievidza industrial zone, in a region with a declining mining industry. The greenfield investment, will amount to about SKK 315 million (Eur 10.5 million) and construction works will start in the second half of 2009. Employment effect start and timeline were not yet announced. GeWis Gruppe has been operating in Slovakia since 1996 when it established its production plant in nearby Handlová city."GeWis chce ďalší závod v Prievidzi".
Sources
19 August 2008: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2008), GeWis, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 66988, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66988.
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