Type
Business expansion
Country
France
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Information / Communication
Information Communication Services
Telecommunications
61.9 - Other telecommunications activities

300 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
11 October 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016

Description

The telecoms network installer Scopelec (2,750 employees in France) has announced the recruitment of 300 people in 2016 further to  a recruitment of  300 employees in 2015. The company, a cooperative owned at 68% by its employees, is facing an increase of activities related to governmental plan to deploy the high speed Internet network through optical fibre across France by 2022.

The cooperative, created in 1967 in Revel, near Toulouse, reached a turnover of EUR 370 million in 2016 compared to EUR 32 million ten years ago.  


Sources

  • 11 October 2016: Les Echos

Citation

Eurofound (2016), Scopelec, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 88961, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88961.