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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 June 2014
Employment effect (start)
11 June 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
Car manufacturer Ford is to create 500 jobs for engineers within 2014 at its development center in Cologne. By now, 400 of the engineers already work there as temporary workers.
Ford employs around 24,000 people in Germany, 17,000 of them in Cologne where the Ford Fiesta is produced for the whole European region.
Eurofound (2014), Ford, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 77185, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77185.
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