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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles 47 - Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 April 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2007
Foreseen end date
1 September 2009
Description
DSG International is setting up a new Czech subsidiary Shared Services Centre DSGI and is looking for its new management. The United Kingdom based company DSG International, one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe, decided to move its financial services centre from Britain to the Czech Republic. The centre located in Brno is to be open in September 2007 and should hire 50 people in the first stage and up to 200 persons within 2 years. The company already owns the Electro World chain in the Czech Republic.
Sources
20 April 2007: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Shared Services Centre DSGI, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 65251, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65251.
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