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Košice's IT Valley ecosystem crossed the 16,000 employee mark in 2024, generating an estimated €580 million in regional gross value added and accounting for roughly 18% of the...
The Kechnec industrial corridor, 25 kilometres southwest of Košice, hosts one of Central Europe's densest concentrations of Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive suppliers. Yazaki,...
Bratislava's automotive sector is not experiencing a talent shortage. It is experiencing two talent markets that share a postcode but have almost nothing else in common. In one...
The Žilina region absorbed €142 million in industrial machinery investment in the first three quarters of 2024 alone, a 23% increase over the previous year. Sixty percent of...
Sixty to seventy per cent of third party logistics revenue in the Žilina district traces back, directly or indirectly, to a single car manufacturer. Kia Motors Slovakia...
Kia Motors Slovakia's Žilina plant now produces electric vehicles alongside its established combustion range. The €200 million retooling programme that began pilot production...
The wood and furniture manufacturing cluster anchored around Zvolen, Brezno, and the Horehronie valley in central Slovakia employs between 4,200 and 4,800 people. It exports...
Banská Bystrica's tourism sector entered 2026 with more capital flowing into new hospitality infrastructure than at any point in the city's modern history. The €12.4 million...
Slovakia's national industrial strategy assumes that its precision engineering SMEs will retool for electric vehicles. In Banska Bystrica, the maths does not support that...
Bratislava's automotive sector is not experiencing a talent shortage. It is experiencing two talent markets that share a postcode but have almost nothing else in common. In one...
Bratislava's ICT and business services sector now contributes approximately €4.8 billion annually to the city's GDP. More than 120 shared service centres employ over 45,000...
Bratislava's logistics sector added roughly 285,000 square metres of net warehouse absorption in 2024 against just 120,000 square metres of new supply. That deficit has...
Košice's IT Valley ecosystem crossed the 16,000 employee mark in 2024, generating an estimated €580 million in regional gross value added and accounting for roughly 18% of the...
The Kechnec industrial corridor, 25 kilometres southwest of Košice, hosts one of Central Europe's densest concentrations of Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive suppliers. Yazaki,...
Central Europe's largest integrated steelworks sits in eastern Slovakia, employs 11,000 people directly, generates €3.2 billion in annual revenue, and exports three quarters of...
Nitra's industrial parks have absorbed 120,000 square metres of new speculative and build to suit space since 2022. Vacancy rates compressed to 4.2% by mid 2024, down from 6.8%...
Nitra's automotive supplier cluster entered 2026 with a contradiction at its core. The 28 to 32 Tier 1 suppliers surrounding Jaguar Land Rover's assembly plant have committed...
Between 2018 and 2024, the number of registered food processing SMEs in Slovakia's Nitra region fell from 147 to 98. Average plant size grew 18% over the same period. By every...
Prešov's wood processing and furniture manufacturers have committed an estimated €15 to €20 million to automation through 2025 and into 2026. The intention was clear: reduce...
Prešov reports the highest regional unemployment rate in Slovakia. It also reports some of the country's most acute wage inflation for CNC programmers, certified welders, and...
Prešov's logistics sector sits on a paradox that most hiring leaders outside Eastern Slovakia would not predict. The region records unemployment of 6.8%, well above the Slovak...
Trenčín's precision engineering cluster generated €1.8 billion in annual turnover through 2023, supplying hydraulic valve blocks, sensor housings, and progressive die stampings...
The Trenčín Region exported more plastic and rubber products in the first half of 2025 than in any comparable period on record. Injection moulding lines serving VW Group and...
Trenčín's logistics sector grew job postings by 19% through 2024, a figure that would signal opportunity in most European markets. In this one, it signals a problem. The...
Trnava's precision engineering cluster produces some of the most exacting metal and plastics components in Central Europe's automotive supply chain. Approximately 320...
Trnava's modern logistics stock reached approximately 380,000 square metres by late 2024, with vacancy rates compressing to 4.2%. Capital continues to flow in. CTPark expanded...
Stellantis poured €45 million into robotic welding cells and automated guided vehicles at its Trnava plant in 2024 alone. The investment cut manual handling positions by 12%...
The Žilina region absorbed €142 million in industrial machinery investment in the first three quarters of 2024 alone, a 23% increase over the previous year. Sixty percent of...
Sixty to seventy per cent of third party logistics revenue in the Žilina district traces back, directly or indirectly, to a single car manufacturer. Kia Motors Slovakia...
Kia Motors Slovakia's Žilina plant now produces electric vehicles alongside its established combustion range. The €200 million retooling programme that began pilot production...
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