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Arts / Entertainment Arts, Entertainment And Culture Gambling And Betting Activities 92 - Gambling and betting activities
800 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 October 2012
Employment effect (start)
12 October 2012
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
The expanding Irish betting company Paddy Power has announced 800 new jobs in areas such as e-commerce, m-commerce, technology development, social media, quantitative research, risk management and online marketing, at its Dublin headquarters. Recruitment will be ongoing from now until the end of 2015. The move is part of a global expansion plan.
Paddy Power operates 365 retail outlets and is the sixth-largest online gaming business in the UK and Ireland. The company has been gradually expanding across Europe and in new locations, such as Australia, and is now focusing on new places, notably Asia.
Sources
11 October 2012: Silicon Republic.com
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Paddy Power, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 74321, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74321.
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