Czech car maker and Volkswagen unit has reiterated it will produce more than 600,000 cars this year.
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“We’ll exceed 600,000 this year and make 1m cars in 2010,” director Martin Jahn said at an automotive conference in Prague on Wednesday.
This would be the first time the unit has produced more than 600,000 cars in a year, a Dow Jones Newswire report noted.
Jahn also reportedly said the company will begin recruiting engineers and skilled labour in Ukraine and Belarus via universities there.
A growing labour shortage in central Europe is a major problem for companies in the region, and so they must look further abroad for talent, he was quoted as saying.
One third of the 1m cars in 2010 will be produced at factories abroad, namely in new plants in Russia, China and India, Jahn said, according to Dow Jones.
