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Information / Communication Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities 62.01 - Computer programming activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 September 2014
Employment effect (start)
4 September 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
US-based IT software research and development company GlobalLogic expands its business into Slovakia. On 4 September it opened a new IT engineering centre for Central Europe in IT Valley Kosice, where applications for mobile phones will be developed. In the next two years, the Company plans to invest USD 2 million and would create at least 200 new jobs. Now, first 60 IT specialists have started to work there. According to Ivan Hruska, appointed manager responsible for the company's business development in Central and Eastern Europe, the long-term plan of the company is to build here a centre with 500 software developers in the next five years.
Sources
4 September 2014: ZIVE
4 September 2014: Webnoviny
Citation
Eurofound (2014), GlobalLogic, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 77586, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77586.
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