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.
Aenova, a German manufacturer of solid, semi-solid, and liquid pharmaceutical products for the healthcare industry, announced the creation of up to 100 new jobs at its plant in Cornu (Prahova County). The Cornu plant will be expanded with new production sites after the company invested €14 million into the construction of the new space, which will become operational in the spring of 2019.
Currently, the company has 300 employees working at the Cornu plant (Prahova County).
The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Starnberg, Germany. Aenova Group has 27 production sites in Germany, France, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy and US.
Aenova has a total employee base of 4,400.
Eurofound (2017), Aenova, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 91866, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/91866.
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