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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.4 - Manufacture of electric lighting equipment
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 December 2010
Employment effect (start)
3 December 2010
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012
Description
The automotive supplier Zizala, which produces light systems for motor vehicles, is to expand its business and thus plans to hire 400 new employees by 2012, among them 200 technicians and engineers.
Zizala, which is located in the Lower Austrian town of Wieselburg, is to expand its business due to increased demand from Asia, first and foremost China, whereas business in Europe still stagnates. The most important clients, however, are the German motor vehicle producers Audi, BMW, Porsche and Volkswagen. The company's CEO Mr Schuhleitner expects an increase in turnover of 20 percent for 2010, and a plus of even 30 percent for the whole ZKW group, which consists of Zizala, the Czeck company KES and the Slovak company ZKW.
Sources
2 December 2010: Wirtschaftsblatt
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Zizala Lichtsysteme, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 71264, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71264.
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