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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
220 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 August 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
Australian Howe Leather Company expands its business in Slovakia, where 220 new jobs will be created in Kosice in the next few months.
In 2005, the Company established its head office for Europe and a production unit where produces leather seats for motor vehicles (see also Howe 2005 and Howe 2011).
Business expansion is attributed to new significant contracts concluded by Howe with Audi and Land Rover companies.
Sources
28 August 2013: Hospodárske noviny
28 August 2013: Kosice 24
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Howe Slovensko, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 75865, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75865.
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