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.
Online retailer Amazon will create up to 1,000 new jobs in Slovakia during the coming three years. The company will open a 60,000 square metre logistics centre in Sered in the third quarter of 2017. According to Roy Perticucci, the Vice President of Amazon Europe, the company will soon begin hiring the new members of the staff, which includes managers of service units, technicians, HR managers, bookkeepers and IT specialists.
Slovak Minister of Economy, Peter Ziga, welcomes the decision of Amazon to also include Slovakia in its business expansion in Europe. He considers the new investment to be very valuable for the economy as well as in terms of employment opportunities, and appreciates that the investor does not require any incentives from the state. Since 2011 Amazon has been operating a sales promotion service centre in Bratislava that will continue to operate as an independent business unit.
Eurofound (2017), Amazon, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 90537, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/90537.
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