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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Insurance, Reinsurance And Pension Funding, Except Compulsory Social Security 65 - Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
5 March 2012
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012
Description
Alico Asigurari, provider of life insurance services, announced to hire 200 people as sales agents and managers, as result of an investment of 8.5 million Euros. The company targets potential employees with experience in the financial sector.
The company, part of the American group MetLife, is located in Bucharest and has currently some 400 agents.
Sources
6 March 2012: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Alico Asigurari Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 73372, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73372.
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