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Information / Communication Information Service Activities Digital Infrastructure Services 63.11 - Data processing, hosting and related activities
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 April 2012
Employment effect (start)
3 April 2012
Foreseen end date
Description
On 3 April 2012, a multinational financial services corporation Citigroup opened its Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) centre in Łódź, Poland, hiring 150 people.
The company announced plans to develop the centre and create hundreds of jobs, but the exact timing and details are yet to be announced. The centre provides IT services and other back-office services for the Citi's units all over the world.
Citigroup located its R&D centre in Łódź in 2011.
Sources
4 April 2012: BPO Łódź ()
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Citi, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 73653, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73653.
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