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Information / Communication Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities 62.0 - Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 October 2021
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2021
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
HTEC Group from San Francisco, USA, established a local branch in Slovenia and plans to hire more than 100 engineers, IT developers and other skilled workers until 2023. The company offers research and development, engineering and product design services. Reasons for the opening of the Slovenian branch were the availability of a high-skilled workforce and the opportunity to collaborate with universities and institutes.
HTEC Group, employing more than one thousand high-skilled workers in the USA, UK and Sweden, is opening development centres all over South-Eastern Europe, in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and North Macedonia.
Eurofound (2021), HTEC, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 106005, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106005.
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