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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Tobacco Products Manufacture Of Tobacco Products 12.00 - Manufacture of tobacco products
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 May 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2018
Foreseen end date
28 September 2018
Description
British American Tobacco (BAT) will employ 100 experts in Croatia as part of a global team for technologically innovative new generations of tobacco products. BAT continues to invest and hire in Croatia, notably in the tobacco product factory in Kanfanar, which produced 10 billion cigarettes last year. The group will invest 45 million euro by the end of 2018, and it plans to increase storage capacities in Kanfanar. Over the past two and a half years, BAT has increased their number of Croatian employees by 7%. The group employs 1,700 employees in the country.
Sources
17 May 2018: Poslovni.hr
Citation
Eurofound (2018), British American Tobacco (BAT), Business expansion in Croatia, factsheet number 94008, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/94008.
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