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 state-owned company, ElectroMobility Poland (EMP), has announced it is recruiting 3,000 people for its first factory, located in Jaworzno, planned to open in the last quarter of 2023.
ElectroMobility Poland is a company responsible for the Izera electric car brand, which will require the imput of managers, engineers and automotive and IT experts to facilitate the the development and production of the first Polish electric car at the new factory.
In the third quarter of 2021, construction of the first production facilities for Izera cars began, with Jaworzno in the Silesian Voivodeship chosen as the location.
Eurofound (2023), ElectroMobility Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 108626, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/108626.
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