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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Insurance, Reinsurance And Pension Funding, Except Compulsory Social Security 65.12 - Non-life insurance
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 April 2014
Employment effect (start)
7 April 2014
Foreseen end date
7 April 2017
Description
AXA Assistance, a global provider of travel insurances, has opened its second Czech branch in Ostrava, where up to 300 new jobs are to be created within three years. The company intends to employ especially graduates with the foreign language skills.
AXA Assistance, headquartered in Prague, has been operating on the Czech market since 1998. Its customers include insurance companies, banks, travel agencies and hotel chains. AXA Assistance is part of the AXA Group, one of the largest financial groups in the world. It employs 160,000 people in 57 counties.
Sources
7 April 2014: Blesk
Citation
Eurofound (2014), AXA Assistance, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 76819, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76819.
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