Employees
As at 30 June 2016, the KION Group employed 23,804 full-time equivalents (31 December 2015: 23,506). The increase in the number of employees is largely due to first-time consolidations in the first quarter as well as growth in eastern Europe.
Personnel expenses rose by 6.2 per cent to €729.2 million in the first half of the year (H1 2015: €686.4 million), mainly as a result of the increase in the number of employees and changes to collective bargaining agreements. Other factors were the acquisition of Egemin Automation (including Retrotech Inc.) and the opening of the new plant in Stříbro, Czech Republic. > TABLE 16
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Employees (full-time equivalents) |
16 |
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30/06/2016 |
31/12/2015 |
Change |
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Western Europe |
16,556 |
16,515 |
0.2% |
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Eastern Europe |
2,064 |
1,921 |
7.4% |
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Americas |
873 |
693 |
26.0% |
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Asia |
3,727 |
3,812 |
–2.2% |
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Rest of world |
584 |
565 |
3.4% |
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Total |
23,804 |
23,506 |
1.3% |