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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Office Administrative And Support Activities 82.1 - Office administrative and support activities
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 May 2016
Employment effect (start)
30 May 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
Swiss chemical and biotech company Clariant has announced that it will create 150 new jobs at its third Poland's shared services center in Łódź. The company has already moved into a new office in Orange Plaza Financial Centre, a new office complex in Łódź. The centre will provide services to customers and business partners from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. The company is looking for employees with foreign languages knowledge.
Clariant has been operating in Poland for 25 years. Currently, the company has two shared services centres located in Łódź and Konstantynów Łódzki employing 150 people and two production units in Konstantynów Łódzki (since 2015) and Gdańsk.
Sources
30 May 2016: Gazeta Wyborcza
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Clariant Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 87774, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87774.
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