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Information / Communication Information Service Activities Digital Infrastructure Services 63.11 - Data processing, hosting and related activities
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 June 2015
Employment effect (start)
15 June 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
IT company OVH is to recruit 100 additional staff by 2015, in France – at its sites in Brest (Finistere), Lyon (Rhone) and Rennes (Ille et Vilaine) – but also in Spain, Poland and Canada. The new positions are mainly for IT developers, but also technicians and commercial staff. Established in 1999, the French company operates 12 data centres as of 2013. In France, the group had announced previously plans to recruit 100 employees in 2011, 500 in 2012, 150 in 2013 and 150 in 2014. It has recruited at group-level, 150 employees since the beginning of 2015.
Sources
15 June 2015: IT For Business
Citation
Eurofound (2015), OVH, Business expansion in World, factsheet number 83779, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83779.
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