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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
50 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 October 2015
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Pharmaceutical company Merck has announced that it will increase the staff of its plant located in Mollet (473 employees) by around 10%. Accordingly, around 50 people will be hired. The date of the employment effect start has not been announced yet. The company plans to invest € 20 million in the following three years. In the last year, the company hired 116 new workers, being half of them from the Mollet region. Merk is a multinational company that is present in 66 countries, employing 38,000 workers. According to the company, around 90% of the products made in the plant of Mollet are exported to other countries.
Sources
28 October 2015: Contrapunt
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Merck, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 85288, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85288.
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