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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.1 - Monetary intermediation
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 May 2015
Employment effect (start)
28 May 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
Western Union, a company operating in international money transfer services, is expanding its activities in Lithuania and will create around 200 new jobs at the global operations centre in Vilnius by the end of 2015.
On 28 May 2015 the company opened a new Perkunkiemis office in Vilnius where 80 new jobs were created. According to the management, an additional 120 new jobs will be created in the office by the end of 2015. Currently the global operations centre in Vilnius employs around 1300 employees.
Sources
28 May 2015: Verslo zinios
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Western Union , Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 83621, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83621.
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