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Manufacturing (32) Other manufacturing 32.3 - Manufacture of sports goods 32.30 - Manufacture of sports goods
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 February 2024
Employment effect (start)
31 December 2024
Foreseen end date
31 December 2024
Description
Amer Sports Ro, a manufacturer of sports equipment part of the Finnish-Chinese group Amer Sports, is investing €6 million in a production hall on an area of 33,792 square meters in the Eurobusiness II Industrial Park in Oradea. The company announced that 200 new jobs will be created by the end of 2024.
The Finnish-Chinese Amer Sports Group has been producing boots in Romania for more than two decades. Initially, the group collaborated with the local company Chimsport, which owned a plant in Orastie (Hunedoara County), which worked under a lohn system with Amer Sports. Later, the international group took over the Orastie plant and started its own production in Romania.
Currently, the company has a workforce of 502 in Romania.
Globally, the company has a workforce of 10,800 employees and operates in 41 countries.
Eurofound (2024), Amer Sports Ro, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 200759, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/200759.