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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32.4 - Manufacture of games and toys
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 August 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2008
Foreseen end date
31 August 2009
Description
Ankama Games France, a video games developer and a part of Ankama Games, is to create 200 new jobs at Roubaix in the North of France. The firm made the announcement on 1st August 2007 and also disclosed that the jobs will be created between January 2008 and August 2009. The firm currently employs 140 at its site in Roubaix. Ankama Group has had a turnover of 15 million EUR in the previous year, and forecasts that it will more than triple its turnover in the next five years.
Sources
2 August 2007: Les Echos
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Ankama Games France, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 65661, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65661.
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