The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Manufacture Of Furniture 31 - Manufacture of furniture
130 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 May 2010
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2010
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
Comfort Collection, a Polish manufacturer of furniture, is buying a furniture plant in Piecki (northern Poland) and will create at least 130 new jobs there by the end of 2010.
Comfort Collection is currently the leaseholder of the Piecki plant that it is to purchase. In June, the area in which the plant is functioning will become a part of the Special Economic Zone in the Warminsko-Mazurskie region granting Comfort Collection exemption from income tax and facilitating the expansion.
The Piecki plant currently manufactures upholstered furniture, 60% of which is exported to Western Europe and the company plans to increase production after the purchase of the plant.
Eurofound (2010), Comfort Collection, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 70577, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70577.
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