Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
The ski producer Amer Sports Bulgaria EOOD is building a new factory in Assenovgrad, for which it will hire 125 new employees. The company plans to have all construction works finished by the end of the year and to start production. The 125 new employees that will be hired, will undergo initial training at Amer Sports Bulgaria's first manufacturing premise in Chepelare, which currently has 750 employees.The location of the new premise has been chosen for logistics reasons – proximity to a highway, an airport, and to the first factory in Chepelare.On January 23, 2023, Amer Sports Bulgaria received an Investor Class A certificate, which gives it access to a subsidy of 900,000 levs (450 thousand Euro) to build the infrastructure around the new production facility.
Eurofound (2023), Amer Sports Bulgaria, Business expansion in Bulgaria, factsheet number 108217, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/108217.
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