Smith Medical

Type
Business expansion
Country
Czechia
Region
Česko; Střední Morava; Olomoucký kraj
Location of affected unit(s)
Hranice
Sector
Manufacturing
(26 - 27) Manufacture of electrical, electronic and optical products
26.6 - Manufacture of irradiation, electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment
26.60 - Manufacture of irradiation, electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment
250 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
19 February 2013
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013

Description

Smith Medical, a global provider of medical devices, is to create about 250 new jobs by the end of 2013 in a new manufacturing and assembling centre for Europe in the city of Hranice.

The handover of the new site, worth EUR 12 million, is planned for June 2013.

Smith Medical provides medical devices for the hospital, emergency, home and specialist environments. The firm employs some 7,500 people worldwide.

Update 18-9-2013: the beginning of the measure has been postponed and the number of jobs being created is lower - 180 new jobs will be created by the end of March 2014.

Sources

  • 18 September 2013: Lidové Noviny
  • 19 February 2013: MF Dnes

Citation

Eurofound (2013), Smith Medical, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 74934, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/74934.