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Professional Services Professional Legal And Technical Acconuting Activities Legal And Accounting Activities 69.2 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 February 2008
Employment effect (start)
8 February 2008
Foreseen end date
31 December 2008
Description
KPMG is an international auditing company offering services in the areas of auditing, tax consultancy and branch specific economic advisement currently employing 1500 people scattered over 80 Swedish towns.On February 8 Swedish CEO Thomas Thiel was interviewed in the Swedish financial newspaper Dagens Industri, where he announced that 350 new jobs will be created in year 2008 due to high expectations on the financial market in the following years. According to the CEO these expectations would lead to possibilities of business expansion and to new employment opportunities. According to Linda Nordström, PR-spokeswoman for KPMG, the new jobs will be spread over many of the Swedish branches of the company and cover an entire range of competences .
Sources
8 February 2008: Dagens Industri
Citation
Eurofound (2008), KPMG, Business expansion in Sweden, factsheet number 66294, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66294.
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