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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25.4 - Manufacture of weapons and ammunition
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 January 2013
Employment effect (start)
15 January 2013
Foreseen end date
Description
Slovak Sitno Holding is to create about 300 new jobs at its factory in Kremnicke Bane.
The business expansion is attributed to a new contract with a Czech Gun Factory in Uherský Brod. The factory in Kremnické Bane will produce hand-guns and some components of other weapons produced by the Czech Company, which is selling them world-wide in 85 countries.
Sources
15 January 2013: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Sitno Holding, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 74814, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74814.
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