Mezei István: Urban development in Slovakia (Pécs-Somorja, 2010)

4. Towns in Slovakia after 1993

Towns in Slovakia after 1993

of Volkswagen Slovakia, a really successful large factory, whose income exceeded 154.8 billion crowns in 2005. The priority of Bratislava is indicated by the fact that 59.1% of the total income in the listed sectors of the industry are produced there.

The headquarters of six important industrial factories can be found in Košice. The largest of them is Inžinierske stavby, a company of the construction industry, with receipts of 6.5 billion crowns and Eurovia-Cesty, a road building company, with 1.9 billion crowns. If the analysis centre had involved metallurgy, as an industrial sector, in the list, then U.S. Steel Košice would have been on it with 91 billion crowns, according to the balance sheet of the company on its homepage".

Of the six large companies in Humenné, two large chemical factories have to be mentioned as examples: Nylstar Slovakia and Rhodia Industrial Yarns. Both of them have incomes of over 2 billion crowns.

Of the four large companies in Trnava, ZF Sachs Slovakia, a gearboxproducing factory, with income of 4 billion crowns, and ŽOS Trnava, a railway repair company with 2 billion crowns, are worth mentioning.

Of the four companies of Zlaté Moravce, Danfoss Compressors, a parts manufacturing company with income of nearly 2 billion crowns and ViOn, an underground construction factory with 1.1 billion crowns, are most outstanding companies.

As for the group of service-providing companies, the analysing centre selected 72 as companies of nationwide importance. They can be found in 14 settlements, each of which is a town. The headquarters of 47 companies are in Bratislava. From the total income of 289 billion crowns, 84.2% is concentrated there. Among others, it is the leading telecommunications service providers, such as Orange Slovensko (21.4 billion SK), Slovak Telekom (16 billion SK), T-Mobile Slovensko (14.7 billion SK), Slovanet (464 million SK) that produce this high sum and extraordinarily high proportion along with utilities companies such as the Slovak gas works Slovenský plynárenský priemysel (87 billion SK) and the electricity company Slovenské elektrárne (45 billion SK). As far as other cities and towns are concerned, mention must be made of the Košice-seated Východoslovenská energetika, which is the electricity supplier in Eastern Slovakia (13 billion SK), the Žilina-seated Central Slovak electricity board Stredoslovenská energetika, (18.5 billion SK) and Nitrianska teplárenská spoločnosť, the heating supplying company in Nitra (411 million SK). *

* http://www.usske.sk/corpinfo/fin-e.htm

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