EMCC European Monitoring Centre on Change

Winkowski

Company/Organisation:
Winkowski

Geographic Location

Country: Poland
Region: Mazowieckie; Centralny
Location of affected unit(s): Wyszków

Company

Sector: Manufacturing
Manufacture of wood and paper products, and printing
18.11 - Printing of newspapers

Employment Effects

Announcement Date: 05-05-2005
Type of Restructuring: Business expansion
Foreseen End Date: 01-01-2010
Planned Job Creation: 1200

Additional Information

Printing company Winkowski will invest €40 million until 2010 in Wyszków (Mazowieckie). In the framework of a property restructuring belonging to former owner Daewoo FSO, Winkowski is to create a printing and logistic centre. Winkowski prints over 800 million pieces of papers per year. Its clients are, inter alia, such magazines as ‘Newsweek’, ‘Viva’, ‘Elle’ and ‘National Geographics’. 35% of Winkowski’s shares belong to the American company Quad/Graphics, the third largest printer in the western hemisphere.