The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 March 2017
Employment effect (start)
23 March 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
Crist, an owner of the former Gdynia Shipyard (Stocznia Gdynia), has announced that it will create 500 new jobs in the next few months. The restructuring programme is associated with large contracts worth EUR 180 million which have been recently signed by the company. Crist is looking for production workers, especially fitters, welders, locksmiths, ship mechanists. The company is finding difficulties in finding skilled labour and it is now looking for new workers also outside Poland. Currently, the company employs nearly 1,500 people.
Sources
23 March 2017: Strefa Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Crist, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 90673, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90673.
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