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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64 - Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 May 2014
Employment effect (start)
29 May 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
The global financial service provider Barclays is expanding its operations in Lithuania and is to create more than 300 new jobs in the Barclays Technology Centre Lithuania in Vilnius by the end of 2014.
Currently the company employs 1241 people in Vilnius. In March 2014 Barclays opened a new global service centre for Human Resources in Vilnius which will employ 80 business administration and human resource management specialists.
Sources
29 May 2014: Verslo zinios
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Barclays, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 77235, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77235.
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