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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Chemicals And Chemical Products 20.15 - Manufacture of fertilisers and nitrogen compounds
130 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 December 2021
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
Yara Lietuva, a Norwegian fertilizer company, will create 130 new jobs in Vilnius until the end of 2022. The company has announced to set a financial operations hub in its European Business Services centre in Vilnius. The company will be looking for employees with a financial background. Currently the European Business Services centre in Vilnius employs 360 employees.
Yara Lietuva was opened in Vilnius in 2018 and it is a branch of the Norwegian company Yara International which is a global company specializing in agricultural products and environmental protection agents. Currently Yara Lietuva provides end-to-end logistics services to Yara's international branches in Europe. It also supports the company globally with data analytics and Business Intelligence solutions.
Eurofound (2021), Yara Lietuva, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 106258, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106258.
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