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Professional Services Professional Services And Management Consultancy Activities Of Head Offices; Management Consultancy Activities 70 - Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 July 2006
Employment effect (start)
10 July 2006
Foreseen end date
Description
The American consulting company Accenture announced its intention to recruit specialists in Bucharest, starting 10 July.
The company will open a centre for services of externalisation (business process outsourcing) in Bucharest integrated in the global network. In the next three months, the Bucharest centre will hire several hundred people from a planned future workforce of 1,000 persons.
Accenture is specialised in management, technical solutions and outsourcing, has over 133,000 employees in 48 countries and a total turnover of EUR 12.5 billion in the fiscal year 2005.
Sources
7 July 2006: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Accenture, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 63733, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63733.
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