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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 April 2016
Employment effect (start)
13 April 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
German automobile manufacturer Daimler is investing €170 million in its Mercedes-Benz press plant in Kuppenheim and thereby creating 200 new jobs. Also the production and storage area of the Kuppenheim plant has been extended by 25,000 square metres.
With one of the most modern body presses worldwide, the company has a competitive advantage for producing the current compact car generation. The new plant will supply the Mercedes-Benz sites in Rastatt (Germany) and Kecskemet (Hungary) as well as the Finnish contract manufacturer Valmet Automotive. Since 2012, this is the first time Daimler is recruiting employees (see 04.2012). Most recently Daimler had to cut jobs in order to save costs (see 12.2014, 11.2014, 05.2014, 01.2013).
Daimler AG, headquartered in Stuttgart, currently employs 284,015 staff worldwide.
Sources
13 April 2016: pressrelations.de
13 April 2016: Automobil Produktion
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Daimler, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 87299, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87299.
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