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Real Estate Real Estate Activities Real Estate Activities 68.32 - Management of real estate on a fee or contract basis
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 September 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
Property management company Servo has announced plans to create 100 new jobs in the course of the coming year. The growing company is based in Leeds and provides services in multiple fields such as rail labour, security, installation and maintenance of security equipment for properties. Clients include Network Rail, the construction company Balfour Beatty and BMW. The jobs which are being created will be in the infrastructure, security and property divisions of the company. Servo is going to provide a variety of trainings for unemployed candidates.
The timeframe for the creation of these new jobs has not been reported explicitly, but it is implied that the jobs will be filled within a year.
Eurofound (2019), Servo, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 98874, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98874.
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