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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.20 - Activities of call centres
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 February 2020
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The Spanish multinational contact centre company Konecta opens a new call centre in Camas (Sevilla), creating 400 new jobs. Konecta has expanded largely not only in Spain (providing customer service to big companies as Inditex) but worlwide, with a presence in Europe, Africa and central America.
In Spain the firm currently counts 29 centres and 16,000 employees. This expansion comes after Konecta acquired the Galician call centre company Sum Talk, which provides services to companies in the retail sector such as the Spanish fashion multinational Inditex, among other large clients such as Abanca and Metlife.
Eurofound (2020), Konecta, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 99861, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99861.
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