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Financial Services Activities Auxiliary To Financial Services And Insurance Activities Activities Auxiliary To Financial Services And Insurance Activities 66 - Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities
170 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 July 2008
Employment effect (start)
11 July 2008
Foreseen end date
Description
The American company Office Depot, provider of financial outsourcing services, which opened a new services centre at Cluj (Cluj County, North-West region), announced the intention to hire about 170 persons with knowledge of the Danish language. This new jobs are the result of delocalisation of the company activities from Great Britain and France.
According to the public relations director the reasons for choosing Cluj Napoca are: the quality of human resources in the field of financial competences and knowledge of foreign languages.
Sources
11 July 2008: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Office Depot Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 66895, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66895.
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