OVH

Type
Business expansion
Country
France
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Gravenlines (Nord), Strasbourg, Paris, Lyon, Brest, Sophia-Antipolis
Sector
Information / Computing
63 - Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and other information service activities
63.1 - Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and related activities
63.10 - Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and related activities
500 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
11 June 2012
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2012
Foreseen end date
18 July 2014

Description

A French IT company OVH has announced the recruitment of 500 new staff over the next three years to double its workforce.

In the beginning of June OVH has opened a new data centre in Gravelines (Nord) that will employ 50 people, and plans to open six new sites in Strasbourg, Paris, Lyon, Brest, Sophia-Antipolis (Nice) and Genth (Belgium).

Established in 1999, the company has become an important web hosting company in France. OVH currently employs 460 people worldwide, 360 of whom are located in France.

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2012), OVH, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 73727, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/73727.