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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.1 - Warehousing and storage
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 September 2014
Employment effect (start)
30 June 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
Logistics company UPS announced plans to create 300 jobs at its new transshipment center in Stryków near Łódź. The center is expected to be operational in the first half of 2015. The company also announced that it plans to create a Global Business Service in Łódź where 300 people will be employed, but the timeline for the job creation has not been announced yet. For both projects the company is to invest USD 25 mn (€19,70 mn).
UPS has been operating in Poland since 1992, it has 36 branches and it employs 4,000 people across the country.
Sources
26 September 2014: Property News
3 September 2014: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2014), UPS, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 77815, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77815.
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