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Financial Services Activities Auxiliary To Financial Services And Insurance Activities Activities Auxiliary To Financial Services And Insurance Activities 66 - Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 July 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
British American Tobacco (BAT) announced the opening of a new financial service centre in Burhcarest, named British American Shared Services Europe (BASS Europe), which will at first employee 100 workers. By 2010 this new unit will provide services for 36 European countries. In the centre, BAT will hire 250 persons over the next three years. In 2007, BAT recorded in Romania a turnover of EUR 824 million.
Sources
11 July 2008: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2008), British American Shared Services Europe, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 66896, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66896.
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