The new plant is a EUR30 million project that will create 750 jobs.
The facility has already been built but work on it continues, as the corporate website shows. The company filed the required papers to get its building permit at the end of 2019.
Sport Mechanical Workshop’s existing plant, which makes bicycles for Decathlon, posted almost RON45 million revenue in 2020 and the number of employees went up to more than 300. The revenue was 58% higher last year, while the number of employees increased by 70 people, ZF has calculated from publicly available data.
Two plants in Romania, Sport Mechanical Workshop and Nextcity in Resita, assembled some 860,000 bicycles for Decathlon, and the target of the retailer is to have more than 1 million bicycles made in Romania in 2021 and then sold throughout its global network.
Decathlon confirmed plans for a new plant last year and said the target was to have 1.5 million bicycles made in Romania at some point.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)