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Information / Communication Information Service Activities Digital Infrastructure Services 63.11 - Data processing, hosting and related activities
180 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 September 2012
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
13 September 2012
Description
IBM Data Storage Systems has hired 180 new employees after expanding its capacities at its site in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
The expansion required substantial financial investments and was co-financed from the money the company received as state subvention under the New Széchenyi Plan Framework Programme.
New hires are highly qualified and they speak fluent English and French, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, Norwegian or Polish.
IBM Data Storage Systems has been present in Hungary for 15 years now. Over the past two years it has created 450 jobs.
Sources
13 September 2012: HR Portal
Citation
Eurofound (2012), IBM Data Storage Systems, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 74125, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74125.
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