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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52 - Warehousing and support activities for transportation
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 February 2021
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2021
Foreseen end date
31 March 2022
Description
The Austrian tech-company Knapp AG, a provider of warehousing and logistics solutions, is looking for additional 500 employees in Austria. The new workers should have a background in software development, mechatronics, engineering or business administration and will be deployed in various locations in Southern Austria (Hart, Leoben, Dobl, Raaba-Grambach and Klagenfurt). An additional 500 employees will be recruited for the company's foreign branches. The recruitment has already started.
Eurofound (2021), Knapp AG, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 106372, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106372.
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