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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.20 - Activities of call centres
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 May 2015
Employment effect (start)
4 May 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
BUW, a German business processing outsourcing provider, will open a new customer care service centre in Wuppertal, which will create 250 new jobs in 2015. The recruitment process has already begun so that the company can start company operations as planned by mid 2015. Wuppertal will be 14th European site for Buw. The other sites are located across Europe (in Germany, Hungary and Romania). In the last year the call centre specialist generated a turnover of 141 million Euro. BUW currently employs 5,800 people.
Sources
4 May 2015: Deal Magazine
Citation
Eurofound (2015), buw, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 83094, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83094.
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