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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
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 May 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
Luxembourg producer of paints for packaging Flint Group has announced that it will create 100 new jobs at its shared service centre in Åódź by the end of 2017. The company is looking for financial specialists, customer service staff, HR specialists as well as engineers with the knowledge of foreign languages, especially English, German, the Romance and Scandinavian languages. The centre provides IT, HR and logistics services to the region of Western and Central Europe as well as Scandinavian countries.
Flint Group, headquartered in Luxembourg, has 140 units worldwide. The company is one of the largest suppliers to the printing and packaging industry worldwide. In Poland, Flint Group has been operating for 15 years; it has the colour laboratory in Konstantynów Åódzki and the shared service centre in Åódź. The company employ 270 people in Poland, including 130 in the unit in Åódź.
Sources
8 May 2017: Puls HR
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Flint Group, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 91000, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91000.
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