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Information / Communication Information Service Activities Digital Infrastructure Services 63.11 - Data processing, hosting and related activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 July 2017
Employment effect (start)
16 July 2017
Foreseen end date
1 January 2019
Description
IT company OVH is to recruit 200 new staff in the next 18 months by opening two new sites in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) and Bordeaux (Gironde). Each of the sites will recruit 100 employees in the next 18 months. Established in 1999, the French company operates 20 data centres as of 2017 and has 1,600 employees worldwide. The group has consistently expanded over the last few years, and has previously announced plans to recruit 200 employees in 2017, 290 employees in 2015, 100 employees in 2011, 500 employees in 2012, 150 employees in 2013 and 150 employees in 2014-2015. OVH will employ 1,500 people worldwide by the end of 2017, including 1,100 in France.
Sources
10 July 2017: Le Journal des entreprises
Citation
Eurofound (2017), OVH, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 91495, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91495.
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