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Article: Franck Muller Group adds new facility: the Swiss watchmaker is taking advantage of its recent success to carry out a major expansion.
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- Jewelers Circular Keystone
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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The Franck Muller Group, the Swiss luxury watchmaker, is significantly expanding its operations with a new watch production park in Les Bois, in northwest Switzerland's Jura region, a longtime center of Swiss watchmaking.
It will invest $27 million to $30 million in the next two years to develop a complex of facilities specializing in parts and movements for its five brands, JCK was told by Didier Decker, Franck Muller's chief operating officer.
The Group, headquartered in Genthod, Switzerland, outside Geneva, owns the luxury watch brands Franck Muller Geneve, Alexis Barthelay, European Company Watch, Pierre Kunz, and Rodolphe, plus Franck Muller and ...