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West Midlands; Shropshire and Staffordshire; Stoke-on-Trent
Location of affected unit(s)
Stoke-on-Trent
Sector
Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.1 - Warehousing and storage
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 July 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Logistics company DSV will create 150 new jobs when it begins to operate the new warehouse for the Fiskars Group in Stoke-on-Trent. DSV will operate the centre for Fiskars, which owns some of Stoke's most famous pottery brands. Staff at Fiskars' current warehouse will transfer over in addition to the new jobs that will be created. There is no information about when the new jobs will be filled, though the building work on the new warehouse has just been completed.
Sources
13 July 2017: The Sentinel
Citation
Eurofound (2017), DSV, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 91659, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91659.
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