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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
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 March 2017
Employment effect (start)
21 March 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
German international logistics company Geis has announced that it will create 400 jobs at its new logistics centre in Stryków near Łódź by the end of 2017.
Geis was founded in 1948 in Germany. The company provides services such as parcel transport, pallet and individual transport, warehouse logistics, development, production and delivery of packaging materials, transport by plane and water transport. Currently, the company employs over 6,000 people in 112 logistics centres in Europe. In Poland, the company employs over 1,200 people in 47 branches and specialised logistics departments.
Sources
21 April 2017: Puls HR
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Geis, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 90644, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90644.
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