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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
600 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 June 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
The car manufacturer PSA Peugeot-Citroën announced the creation of 600 positions in its plant of La Janais, near Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) in 2017. These new positions have been created as a result of the increase in sales of the car maker's new model 5008. Job creations were recently recorded within the group PSA in July 2016 (150 job creations and 1,000 job creations). Job cuts within the group PSA were recorded in 2012 (8,000 job cuts), 2013 (800); 2014 (400 in January and 300 in September); 300 in 2015..
Sources
2 June 2017: Francetv.info
Citation
Eurofound (2017), PSA Peugeot-Citroën, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 91085, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91085.
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