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Adminstrative / Support Services 80 - Investigation and security activities 80 - Investigation and security activities 80.01 - Investigation and private security activities
800 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 December 2015
Employment effect (start)
13 November 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
The private security and investigation group Seris has announced on 8 December 2015 to have recruited 800 employees since the terrorist attacks in Paris, on 13 November. The group has recruited 500 employees in France and 300 in Belgium. Seris is the second largest private security group in France and employs 8,500 people. It employs 12,000 people in the EU, mainly in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands. Its annual turnover reached €350 million in 2014.
Sources
9 December 2015: Ouest Fance
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Seris Security, Business expansion in European Union, factsheet number 85999, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/85999.