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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
1,200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 December 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2012
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012
Description
As announced on December 27th, 2011 German car manufacturer Audi plans to create 1,200 jobs in 2012 due to a stable and high order situation. This is part of Audi's plans to invest € 13 billion until the end of 2016, at least € 8 billion in the German locations of Ingolstadt und Neckarsulm.
Audi thus continues its course of job expansion - the company reports to have hired 1,300 people in 2011 in Germany. These are 100 more jobs than planned in the end of 2010 (see here).
Audi's total workforce in Germany sums up to 46,600 employees.
Sources
27 December 2011: Audi
28 December 2011: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Audi, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 72918, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72918.
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