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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52 - Warehousing and support activities for transportation
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 May 2012
Employment effect (start)
23 May 2012
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012
Description
Sony DADC, a multinational disc and digital solution provider for the entertainment, education and information industry, is to create 100 new jobs at its logistics center in Štěnovice near the city of Plzeň by the end of 2012.
Currently, the firm employs 200 people at the center. Additionally, the company wants to double the number of temporary workers from five hundred to a thousand in the pre-Christmas season (i.e. September-November 2012).
The company's network consists of service offices, optical media production, distribution and digital facilities in 19 countries worldwide.
Sources
23 May 2012: Právo
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Sony DADC, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 73699, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73699.
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