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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
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 December 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
Energy provider Economy Energy has announced that it is to expand its operations in Coventry creating 200 new jobs. The new contact centre will open in February 2017 and the company is looking to recruit staff at all levels from customer service advisers through to managerial positions. The new roles will be based in the city centre at the firm's existing base which has had a GBP 4 million (€4.6 million) refit. The jobs have been created following the company's increase in customer numbers, with currently around 200,000 customers across Britain.
Sources
14 December 2016: Coventry Telegraph
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Economy Energy, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 89707, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89707.
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