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135 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 July 2019
Employment effect (start)
9 July 2019
Foreseen end date
11 July 2022
Description
The US-based technology innovation and software services company Grape Up has announced that it will create about 135 jobs at its new software development centre in Kraków, Poland, within the next three years. The company has just moved into the new larger office. Grape Up operates in the USA (Santa Clara and Chicago), Germany (Cologne) and the UK (London). Currently, the company employs about 65 people at the Kraków centre. The company specialises in software development as well as in companies support for the implementation of innovative technology.
9 July 2019: Grape Up (press release in English) (grapeup.com)
Citation
Eurofound (2019), Grape Up, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 98135, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98135.
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