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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21.2 - Manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 November 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
The pharmaceutical company Novartis announced an investment plan of €200 millions in research and development activities in the next three years, and the hiring of 100 workers under 30 years of age in 2019. They will be selected through artificial intelligence systems which can identify requested profiles (particularly graduates in scientific disciplines) on social networks.
In 2017, the company employed 2,296 workers in Italy, 240 of which in research and development activities. Novartis' Italian headquarters are located in Origgio (Lombardy), and the company has two production seats in Rovereto and Torre Annunziata.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Novartis, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 95944, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95944.
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