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Wholesale / Retail Retail trade Intermediation service activities for retail sale 47.91 - Intermediation service activities for non-specialised retail sale
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 July 2017
Employment effect (start)
11 July 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
Online marketplace OLX, owned by the South African media group Naspers, has announced that it will create 100 new jobs at its office in Poznań by the end of 2017. The company is looking for programmers, business analysts, customer service staff and sale specialists. The restructuring programme is associated with the company’s plan to expand its activities in Poland.
OLX was founded in 2006 in Argentina; the company operates in 80 countries worldwide. Poland’s unit is classified as one of the largest unit of the company. Currently, the branch in Poznań employs about 300 people who work in four online marketplaces (OLX, Otomoto, Otodom and Flixly) operating in Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Belarus, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan.
Sources
11 July 2017: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł
Citation
Eurofound (2017), OLX, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 91464, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91464.
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