Bosch re-locating form UK to Hungary

Zambia News.Net
Sunday 17th January, 2010

In the UK, 900 Bosch workers will lose their jobs when the company's plant in south Wales closes.

The closure of the Vale of Glamorgan site will occur in 2011, when the German firm will transfer to Hungary.

The factory, which opened in 1991 to make alternator products for cars, received £21 million in public grants from the Welsh Development Agency, to help employment prospects in the area.

At its peak Bosch employed some 1,500 people.

Last year, the company warned the workforce in that jobs were at risk unless demand and sales improved.

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