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.
Poland-based distributor of automotive components and cars Inter Cars Poland has announced that it will create 200 jobs at its newly opened distribution centre in Zakroczym, near Warszawa. The company has invested PLN 200 million (EUR 47.73 million USD 53.76 million) in the project. It is expected that the investment will increase the export of automotive parts made in Poland in global markets. The innovative centre will allow the company to send 130 million of automotive products outside the country.
Inter Cars Poland is a part of Inter Cars group, founded in 1997. Currently, the company has 221 branches across Poland. Inter Cars is one of the largest Europe’s distributor of automotive components. The company operates also in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Estonia, Republic of Moldavia, Bulgaria and Slovenia.
Eurofound (2017), Inter Cars Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 91116, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/91116.
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