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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 February 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
On 1 February 2017, German car producer Mercedes-Benz announced to create 150 new jobs at its site in Bremen. The newly hired employees were already working at the production site from Mercedes-Benz, but were initially hired through temporary agencies. The jobs in Bremen were created at the series production for electric mobility cars, especially the new EQ electric car. Mercedes-Benz aims to release at least 10 different electricity cars until 2025.
The site in Bremen is currently producing ten different models with 12,500 employees working there.
Sources
1 February 2017: Mercedes-Benz press release
1 February 2017: Cuxhavener Nachrichten
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Mercedes-Benz , Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 90302, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90302.
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