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Administrative Services Rental And Leasing Activities Rental And Leasing Of Motor Vehicles 77.1 - Rental and leasing of motor vehicles
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 October 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2014
Foreseen end date
1 October 2017
Description
Rental firm, CarTrawler, is to expand its operation in Ireland with 400 new roles over the next 3 years.
Hiring for 200 of these new positions has already begun, in areas such as business development, customer operations, data science, finance, and engineering. This first phase is to be completed early 2015.
The company opened in Dundrum, Dublin in 2004 and operates in 174 countries.
Sources
2 October 2014: Irish Examiner
1 October 2014: The Irish Times
Citation
Eurofound (2014), CarTrawler, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 77627, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77627.
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