Employees

We again hired new employees in the first quarter of 2010. At the cut-off date we employed 2,053 staff members worldwide, which is nine per cent more than in the same quarter of the previous year. In comparison with the end of fiscal year 2009 the headcount has increased by 53 employees. This is a rise in personnel figures of three per cent in the first three months of 2010.

Including our temporary staff there were 2,726 (31 March 2009: 2,518) people worldwide working for the SolarWorld Group on the cut-off date.

Group employees // as at 31 March
 

Employees as at 31.03.2010

Employees as at 31.03.2009

+/- absolute

Germany

1,369*

1,255**

+114

USA

668

615

+53

Rest of the world

16

19

-3

Total

2,053

1,889

+164

* incl. 74 trainees/apprentices
** incl. 93 trainees/apprentices

Personnel changes on the Management Board and/or the Supervisory Board of SolarWorld AG did not occur in the first quarter of 2010.

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