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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.
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 April 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2012
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012
Description
On 6 April 2011, at the opening of the factory in Mielec, Husqvarna Poland's CEO Krzysztof Wardęga announced that the company plans to enlarge the factory and increase its workforce by 100 employees in 2012. Husqvarna is a manufacturer of chainsaws, lawnmowers, four-wheelers, and gardening equipment and it has already hired 240 people at the factory in Mielec (in the Special Economic Zone of Mielec).
Sources
6 April 2011: Strefa Biznesu ()
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Husqvarna Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 71968, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71968.
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