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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Tobacco Products Manufacture Of Tobacco Products 12.00 - Manufacture of tobacco products
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 November 2015
Employment effect (start)
5 November 2015
Foreseen end date
4 November 2017
Description
Tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI) has announced that it will create 200 new jobs at its European Service Centre in Kraków within next two years. The company has expanded its shared service centre investing PLN 75mn (EUR 17.68mn USD 18.89mn). The centre has been operating in Kraków since 2005 and provides financial, IT, HR and other back office services for 120 group units operating in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Sources
5 November 2015: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Philip Morris International, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 85450, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85450.
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