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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
400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
30 May 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
1 July 2017
Description
The French multinational group Armatis has announced that it will open a new contact centre in Guimarães, thereby creating 400 new jobs. The contact centre is set to open by early July 2017. Armatis specialises in customer service, CRM solutions and support marketing techniques. The recruitment process is reported to already be underway.
Armatis has 22 centres spread across France, Portugal, Tunisia and Poland employing around 10,000 people in total. The group, which has been operating in Portugal since 2012, currently has two companies in Portugal and five production centres in the cities of Lisbon, Caldas da Rainha and Porto.
Sources
30 May 2017: Economia online
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Armatis, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 91098, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91098.
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