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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25 - Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment
240 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 November 2011
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2011
Description
Főkefe Rehabilitációs Ipari Nonprofit Ltd's annual plan targets to create 240 workplaces in Szeged (HU333), Komló (HU231), Tiszafüred (HU322), Dabas (HU102) and Körmend (HU222) until the end of 2011.
As part of this plan, as announced on November, 17th 2011, the company plans to open its new brush factory in Szeged with 10 employees with disabilities out of the total 18 new hired.
The state-owned Főkefe employs around 4000 employees at its 76 units all over the country and has a turnover of yearly HUF 5 billion (EUR 16 million). Around 90 % of the employees are people with disabilities.
Sources
18 November 2011: HR Portal
18 November 2011: Kormany.hu
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Főkefe, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 72812, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72812.
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