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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.20 - Activities of holding companies
40 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 February 2023
Employment effect (start)
16 February 2023
Foreseen end date
29 December 2023
Description
H.B. Fuller, an US industrial adhesives manufacturer that has an unit in Vila do Conde will expand its workforce by around 40 people (8% to 10% of the company) until the end of 2023. According to the director of the company in Portugal in the last five years, the H.B. Fuller Portugal team has grown consistently and the same trend is expected in the near future.
The ability to speak different languages (French, German, English, Polish and Dutch) and skills in financial areas are the requirements in the new recruited figures. The company has already hired over 100 people in the past year.
Eurofound (2023), H.B. Fuller Portugal, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 108671, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108671.
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