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Makroregion południowy; Małopolskie; Miasto Kraków
Location of affected unit(s)
Kraków
Sector
Professional Services 69 - Legal and accounting activities 69.2 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy 69.2 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 July 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2011
Foreseen end date
28 February 2013
Description
Capita, the UK's business process outsourcing (BPO), plans to open a BPO service centre in Kraków in autumn 2011. The company has announced that the centre will employ 500 people within the next 18 months - 100 of them will be hired by the end of 2011.
The Capita service centre will provide administrative, IT, HR, finance and accounting services to clients in Poland as well as other European countries. Established in 1984 in the UK, Capita is an outsourcing company which operates in the UK, Ireland and India.
Sources
8 July 2011: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Capita, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 72195, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/72195.