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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Material For Textiles, Apparel, Leather And Related Products Manufacture Of Leather And Related Products 15.11 - Tanning and dressing of leather; dressing and dyeing of fur
450 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 September 2010
Employment effect (start)
6 September 2010
Foreseen end date
23 March 2011
Description
Boxmark Leather is a company, which produces leather for suppliers in the automobile industry. The company is owned by Austrian firm Schmidt. The company faces considerably increased demand for its products. To meet this demand, Boxmark rented the premises of the recently bankrupted company Prevent Avtomobilski deli in Slovenj Gradec. In the rented premises, by end March 2011 Boxmark employed 300 employees (previously employed by Prevent) and intends to employ another 150 by the beginning of September 2011.
Sources
23 March 2011: Delo
16 September 2010: Delo
7 September 2010: Delo
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Boxmark Leather, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 71817, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71817.
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