Doosan Bobcat EMEA has announced the opening of its headquarters
for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa), marking a further
expansion in the Czech Republic.
As part of its Dobříš campus, the newly erected building houses
the company's management and other employees and complements the production
plant and the training and innovation center, where Bobcat machines are created
for Europe and the rest of the world.
This year alone, the company's investments in Dobříš will reach
EUR 20 million. In 2018, Doosan Bobcat’s revenue for the EMEA region amounted
to EUR 765 million, with the Dobříš factory producing a record 17,206 machines.
This year, the company plans to increase production by 20% and break through
the barrier of 20,000 machines for the first time.
Bobcat's history dates back 60 years and has become synonymous
with skid steer loaders in most of the world. It has been operating in the
Czech Republic since 2001. A major development came in 2007 with the
construction of a new production plant for loaders and mini-excavators and the
takeover by the global Doosan Group. In addition to the new production
capacities, Doosan Bobcat has also built an extensive training center, and,
above all, an innovation center. The development of the entire campus is
symbolically crowned by the opening of the company's EMEA headquarters, which
moved from Waterloo, Belgium, to Dobříš, Czech Republic.
Worth EUR 10 million, the three-storey headquarters
building covers a surface area of 1,561 m2 and will offer
more than 3,370 m2 of office space for 200 employees. Investments were
also made to create more than 7,000 m2 of green areas around
the building. The ample parking facilities include charging stations for
electric vehicles.
The Doosan
Group was founded in 1896 in Korea. Its activities range from manufacturing
turbines for power plants to desalination plants to engines for giant ocean
liners. Since 2007, the Bobcat brand has been part of the Doosan Group,
specifically Doosan Bobcat EMEA. In addition to compact Bobcat machines, Doosan
also offers heavy construction, mining and agricultural machinery under the
Doosan Infracore brand.
