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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.10 - Warehousing and storage
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 May 2017
Employment effect (start)
21 May 2017
Foreseen end date
31 May 2018
Description
German multinational logistics provider Kuehne + Nagel started to build the biggest distribution centre in Europe for pharmaceutical products (36,000 square metres of warehouse area) in the immediate vicinity of airport Brnik (Gorenjska region) and will employ more than 200 new workers. The distribution centre will primarily serve the needs of the pharmaceutical company Lek, a member of Novartis group. Investment will amount to €50 million and will be finished by the end of May 2018. Kuehne + Nagel appointed Invest4SEE, which has built several similar logistics centres in the East Europe, to carry out the investment.
Sources
18 May 2017: Finance
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Kuehne + Nagel, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 91036, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91036.
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