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Manufacturing Manfacture for transport equipment Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 October 2024
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2025
Foreseen end date
31 December 2026
Description
Daimler Truck, a German commercial vehicle manufacturer, is creating up to 600 new jobs by building a new logistics centre in Halberstadt (Saxony-Anhalt). The jobs will primarily be in logistics, facility management, IT and administration, and more than half of the positions have already been filled.
The phased commissioning will begin in 2025, with full capacity utilisation planned for 2026.
Daimler Truck employs around 100,000 people worldwide. Daimler Truck last underwent a major global reorganisation in 2013 Daimler Trucks 2013 - WO, as a result of which 800 jobs were cut in Germany Daimler Trucks 2013 - DE.
Eurofound (2024), Daimler Truck, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 203053, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203053.
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