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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.20 - Activities of call centres
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 May 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 May 2015
Foreseen end date
31 May 2015
Description
French call centre firm Acticall has started recruiting about 200 employees for its newly-opened site in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen (Haute-Normandie). It is its third site in the region of Haute-Normandie where callcentre activities employ currently about 4,500 employees.
Acticall has opened centres in 2010 and 2011 in France (Acticall03-2010, Acticall08-2010; Acticall2011). Acticall currently employs about 5,250 employees in France (7,000 employees worldwide). The group specialises in customer services and has a 2013 turnover forecast of €175 million.
Sources
9 May 2015: Paris Normandie
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Acticall, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 83461, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83461.
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