BRATISLAVA/SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics <005930.KS> said on Saturday that it would consolidate its TV production plants in Slovakia, closing one of the two facilities in the European country.
Samsung has two assembly plants in Slovakia - at Galanta and Voderady - primarily making LCD TVs.
Samsung said combining the two plants was to improve efficiency. All workers at the Voderady plant would be offered the chance to move to Galanta on a voluntary basis with equal working condition, the company said.
"Samsung Electronics is consolidating its production facilities in Voderady and Galanta in order to enhance its synergy and efficiency, " it said in an emailed statement.
The announcement followed a local media report in Slovakia that the South Korean electronic giant would close one of the plants and all 568 core employees would be offered a transfer to another facility.
(Reporting By Tatiana Jancarikova in BRATISLAVA and Ju-min Park in SEOUL; Editing by Susan Fenton and Tom Hogue)