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.
B. Braun Medical expands its Hungarian plant with at least 100 additional jobs. The German B. Braun Group, one of the world's leading healthcare providers is building the plant site in Gyöngyös at a cost of around 3 Billion HUF (10 million Euros). This will be its largest operator of dialysis centres in Hungary. The company has country wide 1,400 employees and about 25 Billion HUF (89 million Euros) annual revenue.
Since 1994 is B.Braun Medical LTD present in Hungary, it operates in three segments of business: manufacturing, sales and developments. Now the city council contributes with around 9,3 Million HUF (34000 Euros) to the investments to improve local employment and the industrial park in Gyöngyös.
Eurofound (2010), B Braun Medical, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 71307, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/71307.
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