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Health / Social work 86 - Human health activities 86.9 - Other human health activities 86.9 - Other human health activities
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
8 January 2014
Employment effect (start)
8 January 2014
Foreseen end date
8 February 2014
Description
The state-owned Institute of Immunology Zagreb has filed for bankruptcy. 200 jobs are to be lost.
According to the sources, in 2013 the Institute lost 79pc of its revenue due to the loss of a manufacturing license for the production of medicines derived from human blood or human plasma and serum of animal origin.
The Institute is the only Croatian body of its kind and is one of the biggest and oldest manufacturers of immuno-biological medicines globally.
Sources
8 January 2014: Poslovni dnevnik
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Imunoloski zavod (The Institute of Immunology), Zagreb, Bankruptcy in Croatia, factsheet number 76418, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/76418.