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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Textiles 13 - Manufacture of textiles
New offshoring locations
Serbia
654 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 November 2009
Employment effect (start)
3 November 2009
Foreseen end date
Description
Textile and clothing manufacturer Makyta Puchov announced the dismissal of 654 workers. The financial director of the company, Miroslav Macák, declared that 475 employees will be affected. According to the spokesperson of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Michal Stuška, redundancies are mainly due to the delocalisation of the production of upholstery for Audi and Volkswagen to Serbia. Another reason for the company's difficulties is the low competitiveness of some production units.
Sources
4 November 2009: Hospodárske noviny ()
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Makyta, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Slovakia, factsheet number 69812, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69812.
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