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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 May 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
The Austrian motorcycle manufacturer KTM-Sportmotorcycle is to produce Husqvarna motorcycles (which were recently bought from BMW) in Mattighofen, thus creating 100 new jobs in Austria in 2013 (from autumn onwards). The production was formerly located in Biandronno, Italy, where currently 240 employees are employed. In Biandronno, the company will be maintaining only a spare parts depot.
Sources
21 May 2013: Salzburger Nachrichten
24 May 2013: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten
29 May 2013: Wirtschaftsblatt
Citation
Eurofound (2013), KTM-Sportmotorcycle, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 75466, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75466.
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