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.
Mubea, the German producer of components for the automotive industry, has announced that it will create 900 new jobs at its new factory in Olszowa near Strzelce Opolskie in the Katowice Special Economic Zone, Poland. The company has already built two new production halls on 20 hectares of land; one of them is already operational and the second one will be launched in July 2016. Another four halls are expected to be build within the next years. The company has employed about 100 people who underwent or are still undergoing training in the Mubea factory in Žebrák, Czech Republic, as it was previously declared in 2015. The factory will supply components to Volkswagen and Opel.
Eurofound (2016), Mubea, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 87601, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/87601.
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