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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 March 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2011
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
On 11 March 2011, Manitou, a producer of fork-lift trucks, announced its plans to recruit 120 employees in 2011. The company will create 95 new jobs at its plant of Ancenis (Loire-Atlantique) and another 25 in Beaupréau. The new hires will be initially employed on a temporary contracts; such contracts will be then converted into contracts of indefinite duration.
Eurofound (2011), Manitou, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 71780, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71780.
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